Technical Report to the Biodiversity Heritage Library Institutional Council on 22 Mar 2010 at American Museum of Natural History

1. Technology Review: BHL Institutional Council Mtg 22 Mar 2010

2. Stats

5. Size of BHL content *today*

6. Bigger than a breadbox, smaller than a sperm whale http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5225013

7. Usage

8. 1.1mil visits from 231 countries since launch

9. Referrers: 2008 - 2009

10. Referrers: 2010 Jan 1 – Mar 15, 2010

11. Stats unique to our tools

12. PDF Articlizing stats

13. # Items by Library Items Institution Name 11,476 University of California Libraries (archive.org) 11,244 MBLWHOI Library 9,537 Smithsonian Institution Libraries 6,461 New York Botanical Garden 5,129 Harvard University, MCZ, Ernst Mayr Library 4,932 Gerstein - University of Toronto (archive.org) 3,882 Natural History Museum, London 3,350 Missouri Botanical Garden 2,821 Library of Congress (archive.org) 2,509 University of Illinois Urbana Champaign 2,029 American Museum of Natural History Library 1,996 NCSU Libraries (archive.org) 1,692 UMass Amherst Libraries (archive.org) 1,296 Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine (archive.org) 1,216 Robarts - University of Toronto (archive.org) 1,100 Canadiana.org (archive.org) 621 Boston Public Library (archive.org) 579 University of New Hampshire Library (archive.org) 516 Montana State Library (archive.org) 282 Prelinger Library (archive.org)

14. # Names by Library Names Institution Name 14,109,080 MBLWHOI Library 12,241,186 Smithsonian Institution Libraries 9,105,969 New York Botanical Garden 7,860,553 Missouri Botanical Garden 5,323,730 University of California Libraries (archive.org) 4,818,365 Harvard University, MCZ, Ernst Mayr Library 4,776,527 Gerstein - University of Toronto (archive.org) 3,050,242 Natural History Museum, London 2,387,731 American Museum of Natural History Library 2,292,570 NCSU Libraries (archive.org) 2,106,182 UMass Amherst Libraries (archive.org) 1,836,281 University of Illinois Urbana Champaign 532,635 Earth Sciences - University of Toronto (archive.org) 518,695 Robarts - University of Toronto (archive.org) 225,357 Canadiana.org (archive.org) 177,283 Boston Public Library (archive.org) 97,663 Library of Congress (archive.org) 83,089 Prelinger Library (archive.org) 75,113 University of Connecticut Libraries (archive.org) 71,512 The Field Museum

15. “Taxonomic Density” by Library Simple: avg. # names / item Tax. Density Names Items Institution Name 2,346.4 7,860,553 3,350 Missouri Botanical Garden 1,409.4 9,105,969 6,461 New York Botanical Garden 1,283.5 12,241,186 9,537 Smithsonian Institution Libraries 1,254.8 14,109,080 11,244 MBLWHOI Library 1,244.8 2,106,182 1,692 UMass Amherst Libraries (archive.org) 1,176.8 2,387,731 2,029 American Museum of Natural History Library 1,148.6 2,292,570 1,996 NCSU Libraries (archive.org) 968.5 4,776,527 4,932 Gerstein - University of Toronto (archive.org) 939.4 4,818,365 5,129 Harvard University, MCZ, Ernst Mayr Library 785.7 3,050,242 3,882 Natural History Museum, London 731.9 1,836,281 2,509 University of Illinois Urbana Champaign 463.9 5,323,730 11,476 University of California Libraries (archive.org)

17. Application / Portal

20. OCR correction using WikiSource http://biostor.org/wiki/Page:Spixiana1999zool.djvu/293

23. Hardware / Infrastructure

25. Cluster ~$17,ooo USD

27. Global BHL

30. BHL-Europe

32. BHL-China

35. BHL-Australia

37. BHL-Brasil

39. CiteBank

44. M agic U nicorn S yndrome Fearing

45. Reallocation