Yet another BHL Demo given by David Remsen of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) at the Asian Regional Meeting in Bangkok, Thailand

1. GLOBALBIODIVERSITY INFORMATIONFACILITY Digitisation: Taxonomic Data From pages to petabytes Asian Regional Meeting and Biodiversity Informatics Workshop 16-19 Nov 2009 David Remsen Senior Programme Officer, ECAT

2. Scope Taxonomic data originates in publications Most species are known from a single publication – original description How do I find it? Access to taxonomic literature critical Never “out of date” Retrospective approaches Prospective approaches

3. Retrospective Literature 100M pages – Core 150M pages - Pre-1923 280-320 M – All taxonomic literature Free and open access to all biodiversity literature

5. New York Botanical Garden

6. Royal Botanic Garden Kew

7. Harvard University

8. MBL/WHOI Library Woods Hole

9. BHL Europe (2009)

10. BHL Asia?American Museum of Natural History CA Academy of Sciences Field Museum Natural History Museum London Smithsonian Institution Libraries

11. BHL Process

12. Digitisation: One page at a time… Regional Scanning Centers BHL SCRIBE system

13. Now Online 25M pages 34K titles 66K volumes 5M different names Use it bhl@oeb.harvard.edu biodiversitylibrary.org

14. Prospective Literature

15. Multiple Uses for data