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Biodiversity Heritage Library - Program news and collection highlights from BHL

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Senior Programmer needed to assist BHL development

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The Missouri Botanical Garden (MOBOT), located in St. Louis, MO, is seeking to hire a Senior Programmer Analyst to work on several large biodiversity informatics projects, including the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) online at www.biodiversitylibrary.org.

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January 4, 2008byChris Freeland
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BHL Name Services v.1.0 released

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The name services are XML-based web services that can be invoked via SOAP or HTTP GET/POST requests. Responses can be received in one of three formats: XML wrapped in a SOAP envelope, XML, or JSON.

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December 5, 2007byChris Freeland
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‘Discovered Bibliographies’ through Natural Language Processing algorithms

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A characteristic of the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) that distinguishes it from other mass digitization projects is the incorporation of service-based algorithms to identify scientific name strings throughout digitized content. These ‘taxonomically intelligent’ services, powered by uBio.org’s TaxonFinder and NameBank, have been incorporated into the BHL Portal to provide names-based interfaces into taxonomic literature.

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November 21, 2007byChris Freeland
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BHL Portal, an early review

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“This site displays an elegantly designed simplicity that the web developer in me finds irresistible. It’s a marketing nightmare, but a researcher’s dream – a system to quickly and easily find the information you want with minimal distractions.”

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November 7, 2007byMartin R. Kalfatovic
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New name finding functionality

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We’ve released new functionality in BHL to allow users to search across all the scientific names we’ve indexed throughout our digital library and view a bibliography of occurrences – what we’re tentatively calling a “discovered bibliography”.

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October 16, 2007byChris Freeland
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