The document discusses the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), an organization that aims to digitize literature related to biodiversity and make it openly accessible online. It provides details on BHL's structure, partners, efforts to digitize over 1.4 million pages of literature through mass scanning facilities, and development of tools to extract taxonomic and other scientific information from the literature. BHL's goal is to narrow the digital divide by providing access to biodiversity literature from over 250 years that is currently difficult to access.

1. The Biodiversity Heritage Library Martin R. Kalfatovic Smithsonian Institution Libraries A Cornerstone of the Encyclopedia of Life

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3. Structure of the Encyclopedia of Life

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5. Education & Outreach Smithsonian/Harvard Informatics Marine Biological Laboratory Secretariat Smithsonian Synthesis Center Field Museum Biodiversity Heritage Library

9. Literature Repatriation Biologia Centrali-Americana. Edited by Frederick Ducane Godman and Osbert Salvin. London : Pub. for the editors by R. H. Porter, 1879-1915

10. Digital Divide?

11. Digital Divide? Vishwas Chavan travels a lot. An informatician based at the National Chemical Laboratory in Pune, India, he collects data on what types of animal live where in India to enter into a biodiversity database … Much of the information Chavan seeks is in old, out-of-print tomes … To find them, Chavan has spent years trailing around libraries. He dreams of the day when books such as these are scanned and made available as digital files on the Internet. “ Science in the Web Age: The Real Death of Print” by Andreas von Bubnoff Nature 438, 550-552 1 December 2005 Henry Walter Bates The Naturalist on the River Amazons, 1863

12. Narrowing the Divide

17. BHL Structural Metadata First Ingest Internet Archive 390888347 45632 390888346 45632 390888345 45632 390888344 45632 390888343 45632 Sub-element Barcode Bib #

18. BHL Structural Metadata Sub-Element Map Internet Archive 5 390888343 45632 4 390888343 45632 3 390888343 45632 2 390888343 45632 1 390888343 45632 Sub-element Barcode Bib #

19. BHL Structural Metadata Page Structure Map Internet Archive XML structure map that delineates the relationships of the images created automatically 1 390888343 45632 Sub-element Barcode Bib # 0005 0004 0003 0002 0001 Image Number

20. Taxonomic Intelligence

24. Scalable Mass Scanning

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37. www.biodiversitylibrary.org

46. BHL Literature Online 1,291,485 pages 657,310 pages via BHL Portal Yet another physical difficulty is the task of assembling the library and indexes which will enable the student to work under proper conditions…. the beginner must now be prepared to spend liberally, or else must establish himself in an institution where a large library exists ; if he work by himself with only a few books, he will have to confine himself to a very narrow specialty indeed. 'The Limitations of Taxonomy' by J.M. Aldrich, Science , April 22, 1927, vol. LXV, no. 1686, p.381

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