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‘What’s in a Name?’ Launched at Harvard Museum of Natural History

Why are names important in science? What is the difference between scientific names (also known as Latin names or taxonomic names) and common names? Why do some species have multiple names? The grant project team for What’s in a Name, supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), set out to find answers and develop exhibits and other ways for anyone to explore this phenomenon. With millions of different species to identify and understand, the process of naming organisms helps scientists organize and understand the tree of life.

February 14, 2017byJane Pickering and Constance Rinaldo

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BHL participates in the GBIF-CoL-EOL-BHL-BOLD Summit at Naturalis

On 13 April 2015, BHL Program Director Martin R. Kalfatovic attended the GBIF-CoL-EOL-BHL-BOLD Summit at Naturalis in Leiden, Netherlands. This meeting followed on the preceding Catalogue of Life meeting in Oostende, Belgium. The meeting took place in the historic Pesthuis on the Naturalis campus. Other participants were: The purpose of the meeting was to discuss synergy and explore potential for intensifying collaboration concerning infrastructure, software tools, and services.

April 22, 2015byMartin R. Kalfatovic

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BHL and EOL co-host a Smithsonian Associates event

On May 28, the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) and the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) co-hosted an evening program on digital volunteerism. The event was organized by The Smithsonian Associates (TSA) and was attended by 74 people. Carolyn Sheffield (BHL), Katja Schulz (EOL), and Jen Hammock (EOL) presented on BHL, EOL, and examples of how people could contribute to growing our knowledge of the planet’s biodiversity.

June 17, 2014byCarolyn Sheffield

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NESCent-EOL-BHL Research Sprint

We invite participants for an event that will pioneer the mining of the Encyclopedia of Life (http://eol.org) and the Biodiversity Heritage Library (http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org) to address outstanding and novel questions about the ecology and evolution of biodiversity. We aim to identify questions and data for which biologists may lack informatics skills and resources to address or analyze successfully; and symmetrically, to guide informaticians to pressing ecological and evolutionary questions.

September 30, 2013byMartin R. Kalfatovic

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BHL Image Collection on EOL!

The Biodiversity Heritage Library now has its own collection of images in the Encyclopedia of Life! This collection is comprised of images that have been tagged with species name machine tags, relating the species depicted in each image. The collection currently comprises over 11,000 images representing over 10,000 taxa, and will continue to grow as additional illustrations are tagged in the BHL Flickr.

March 11, 2013byMichelle Strizever

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The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives. Headquartered at the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives in Washington, D.C., BHL operates as a worldwide consortium of natural history, botanical, research, and national libraries working together to digitize the natural history literature held in their collections and make it freely available for open access as part of a global “biodiversity community.”

All posts tagged with encyclopedia-of-life

‘What’s in a Name?’ Launched at Harvard Museum of Natural History

BHL participates in the GBIF-CoL-EOL-BHL-BOLD Summit at Naturalis

BHL and EOL co-host a Smithsonian Associates event

NESCent-EOL-BHL Research Sprint

BHL Image Collection on EOL!

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