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Biodiversity Heritage Library - Program news and collection highlights from BHL

All posts by Trish Rose-Sandler

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DPLA Reharvest of BHL Data

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On April 11, 2017 the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) reharvested all BHL data for ingest into its portal at https://dp.la/. While BHL has served as a content hub for DPLA since its launch in 2013, our data has not been updated in their portal since that launch, primarily due to the absence of a workflow on DPLA’s end for automatically harvesting new data. Since 2013, the number of BHL records in our portal has increased significantly and changes and corrections to pre-2013 records were not reflected in the DPLA portal.

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May 18, 2017byTrish Rose-Sandler and Bianca Crowley
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IFLA Presentation on Expanding Access to Natural History Illustrations

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BHL was invited to give a talk at a one day session called “Worth a Thousand Words: A Global Perspective on Image Description, Discovery, and Access.” This session was part of the IFLA World Library and Information Congress held in Columbus, Ohio from August 13-19th 2016. The talk, entitled “Expanding Access to Natural History Images: the Biodiversity Heritage Library and its Global Consortium,” focused on the ways that BHL has sought to improve access to its images, which are mostly hidden within the books and journals on its portal.
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August 30, 2016byTrish Rose-Sandler
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Smorball and Beanstalk: Games that aren’t just fun to play but help science too

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As game players are growing beanstalks and leading the Eugene Mellonballers to victory, historic books are being saved from digital oblivion.

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August 28, 2015byTrish Rose-Sandler
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Citizen Science Uses Art to Unlock Scientific Knowledge

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Since the release of Science Gossip a little less than a month ago, 3,600 volunteers have enthusiastically completed 160,000 classifications of natural history illustrations from the pages of 19th century science periodicals!
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March 31, 2015byTrish Rose-Sandler and Grace Costantino
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Zooniverse releases Science Gossip

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Zooniverse unveils its latest project called Science Gossip which is an investigation into the making and communication of science in both the Victorian period and today. This project is born from a collaboration between an Arts and Humanities Research Council project in the UK, called ‘Constructing Scientific Communities: Citizen Science in the 19th and 21st Centuries’ (ConSciCom) and the Missouri Botanical Garden who provided content from the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). The publication of books and periodicals are key locations for knowledge about the natural world.
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March 4, 2015byTrish Rose-Sandler
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Crowdsourcing and BHL: Current Projects that Allow Users to Help Us Improve Our Library!

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Recent crowdsourcing initiatives are revolutionizing scientific research, allowing the public to help scientists and researchers document, identify, and better understand biodiversity. For example, the Atlas of Living Australia’s FieldData program allows anyone to contribute sightings, photos and observational data to help researchers and natural resource management groups collect and manage biodiversity data.
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November 6, 2014byGrace Costantino and Trish Rose-Sandler
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The TDWG 2013 Annual Conference: my experience as a first timer

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The Biodiversity Information Standards group, also known as TDWG, holds an annual conference every year in a different city around the globe. This year it was held in Florence Italy from October 28th 2013-November 1st 2013. It was my first opportunity to attend the TDWG conference. The conference theme was “virtual communities for biodiversity science” which spoke to me of the increasing opportunities in sharing and connecting biodiversity data via the semantic web environment. I particularly enjoyed the keynote talk by Eric Meyer of the Oxford Internet Institute where researchers study the social implications of the Internet from different domain perspectives.

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November 26, 2013byTrish Rose-Sandler
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