User Needs: Biodiversity Heritage Library

(BHL)

Chris FreelandTechnical Director, BHL

Application Development Manager, Missouri Botanical Garden

About BHL American Museum of Natural History The Field Museum Harvard University Marine Biological Laboratory and

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library Missouri Botanical Garden Natural History Museum, London The New York Botanical Garden Royal Botanic Garden, Kew Smithsonian Institution University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University

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http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org

What BHL wants to do

What BHL is funded to do

BHL development philosophy:Success is about rapid iteration & large ears

Piso, Willem. Historia naturalis Brasiliae. 1648.

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Human-locatable literature Search Browse

Human-readable literature Page turning, multiple views, translations PDF “Grab-n-Go”

OCR TextStellaria ongipes ? Goldie. Cornwallis Island.Silene acaWlis, L. Woman Islands.Sawfraga oppositifolia, L. Kakkidlarn, Greenland; Cornwallis Island.Sa4mfraga cerua, De Cand. Ukaari; Cornwallis Island.Sairaga csepitosa, L. Wolstenholme, Greenland; Cornwallis Island.Saxfraga rimdaris, De Cand. Whale Fish Island.Sad~ raga nivalis, L. Cornwallis Island.Ptentilla emarginata? Pursh. Wolstenholme.Dipena Lapponica, L. Whale Fish Island.Pyrola rotndifolia, L. Whale Fish Island.Casiope tetragona, Don. Ichauti.Vaccinium uliginosum, L.Loiseleuria procumbens, L. Whale Fish Island.Empetrum nigrum, L. Whale Fish Island.Polygonum viviparm, L. Bushnan Island.Oayria reiformis, L. Whale Fish Island.Eriphorum capitatum, Host.Alpecurus alpinus, Sm. Ibgi.Woodsia ilvenis, R. Br. Whale Fish Island.Lycopodium elago, L. Kiiedmoosi.

Machine-readable literature<genus>Polygonum</genus><species>viviparm</species>,<author>L.</author> <locality>Bushnan Island.</locality>

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Bibliography by taxon

Multiple representations Biologia Centrali-Americana :zoology,

botany and archaeology Mammalia Aves v. 1 … Aves v. 4 Reptilia and Batrachia

Biologia Centrali-Americana : Aves v. 1 Introduction -- Subclass Aves Carinate. Order

Passeres. v. 2 Subclass Aves Carinate. Order[s]: Passeres

(contd.), Macrochires, Pici, Coccyges, Psitta

Is itOr

It’s both…depending on use.

Citation ResolverZea mays L.

Sp. Pl. 2: 971-972. 1753.

Title: Species PlantarumTL2: 4.769Tropicos Pub_id: 1071IPNI Pub_id:1071-2

Volume: 2Start Page: 971End Page: 972Year Published: 1753

http://hdl.handle.net/1234567/9876

http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/358992

Title Registry Have BPH, TL2, others, but can you USE

them?

Title: Species Plantarum TL2: 4.769 Tropicos Title_id: 1071

…… IPNI Pub_id: 1071-2

Open & editable by community

Better OCR Sad~ raga nivalis Stellaria ongipes ? Goldie. Silene acaWlis, L. Sa4mfraga cerua