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Return of the Dodo?! BHL joins the larger scientific community in expressing shock, excitement!

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What appears to be a male Dodo bird (Raphus cucullatus) approximately 2 and a half feet tall has been discovered today, April 1, nesting among the bushes in the butterfly garden of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. How the creature, that hasn’t been seen since the 17th century, has come to reside Washington, DC remains a mystery. Smithsonian Security was alerted to the presence of the bird by an alert tourist who heard the loud syncopated calls of the once thought extinct bird. Nicknamed “Lazarus,” the Dodo exhibits a friendly curiosity about humans, clearly enjoying the excitement and attention its presence is generating.

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April 1, 2009byErin Thomas
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Update on BHL-Europe and job posting for Team Leader and ICT specialist

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The lack of access to the published biodiversity literature is a major obstacle to efficient research and a broad range of other applications, including education, biodiversity conservation, protected area management, disease control, and maintenance of diverse ecosystems services. This literature also has cultural importance as a resource for the study of the history of science, art and other non-science applications. Currently, a large number of small projects are digitising biodiversity material in numerous institutions across the EU to make access more open, but the corpus will still be seriously fragmented. These projects do not use common standards or interfaces and are not interoperable.

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March 24, 2009byChris Freeland
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Tuatara in the news … and in BHL

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The Associated Press ran a story on March 20 with the headline, “Rare reptile found first time in 200 years” (see the MSNBC version).The tuatara is a member of the order Sphenodontia and important to the study of the evolution of lizards and snakes. Thought to be extinct on the main islands of New Zealand, the discovery of this hatchling is great news.

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March 21, 2009byMartin R. Kalfatovic
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Updates to BHL exports now include LCSH and all pages

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Following user requests, the BHL exports now include Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) and metadata for all pages in the BHL collection.

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March 13, 2009byChris Freeland
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BHL on Twitter

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Yes, we might be a little slow to the game, but the BHL now has a Twitter account. Please follow us and see what worthy of 140 characters!

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March 1, 2009byMartin R. Kalfatovic
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Now serving all page images via djatoka

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Last fall developers Ryan Chute and Herbert Van de Sompel from Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Research Library released djatoka, a new Open Source JPEG 2000 image server.

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January 26, 2009byChris Freeland
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Article download now available!

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Since the public launch of BHL in Feb 2008, the BHL Technical development team has received repeated requests for an interface that would allow users to download a PDF for an individual article within one of the digitized books in BHL. This is actually a fairly challenging task, as previously reported, but with the right technology and a little bit of luck we’ve devised a solution that is working very well in production and is receiving positive feedback. Here’s how it works.

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January 15, 2009byChris Freeland
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