GLOBAL BHL

BHL Africa Launch 14 April 2013Nancy E. Gwinn, Chair, BHL Steering CommitteeVice Chair/Secretary, Global BHL

BHL Global (gBHL)

gBHL Governance• Memoranda of

Understanding

• Steering Committee

• Bylaws

• Officers

• Annual face-to-face meeting

• Executive Committee--conference calls as needed

Global BHL Steering CommitteeAugust 2011 Vice Chair SecretaryChair

233 countries

Meetings

USA 2010 & 11

BERLIN 2012

MOROCCO 2013

TechnicalAssistance

PEOPLE

William Ulate

Martin Kalfatovic

From BHL US| UK

Global BHL Coordinator

BHL US | UK Program Director

From YourselvesUniversity of Pretoria Digital Office

SANBI

National Museums of Kenya

......and many others

Collaboration is the Key

U. of Pretoria signs BHL MOU

U. of PretoriaScanning Camera

TOOLS

The Internet Archive

• 501(c)(3) organization• Dedicated to “Universal Access to

Human Knowledge”• Founder of the Open Content Alliance• Provides:

– Mass scanning– Archival storage of files– Image processing– Technology development

INTERNET ARCHIVE HEADQUARTERSSAN FRANCISCO, CA

Macaw (Metadata Collection and Workflow). Scanning workflow and ingest management tool. Based on “Paginator” (MOBOT), Macaw allows for creating robust page level metadata and pushing content to other repositories (e.g. Internet Archive and local storage) .

In January, 2012, a new application was added to the BHL administration dashboard that allows direct upload of images from BHL to Flickr, with embedded metadata and page links included.

What do we expect?

• Content Creation

• Audience Building

• Content Identification

• Partnership Building

All Must Commit & Help One Another!

Content Creation• Digitize biodiversity

literature not available from other BHL global nodes

• Digitize significant content relevant to African biodiversity

• Monographs, journals, archives, reports, "gray" literature

• Add accurate, full metadata to all contributions

Audience Building• Inform African biodiversity

communities (students, researchers, organizations) about the existence of BHL

• Explain how they can integrate BHL content into their work

• Promote and market BHL through multiple means (public relations, local events, print and audiovisual media)

• Use social media -- start a blog!

Content Identification

• Participate in the wider global BHL to identify gaps in digitized BHL literature, published anywhere, that will support biodiversity research on African taxon

• Use Gemini feedback to alert BHL US|UK to any errors found

Partnership Building

• Continue to grow the membership of BHL Africa

• Widen the partnership and increase cooperation across institutions nations and regions

BHL crosses borders!

gBHL welcomes BHL Africa!

See you in Morocco