The Biodiversity Heritage Library Mass Digitizing Project: A Grandeur in this View of Digital Libraries

Slide 1: BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY A Grandeur in this View of Digital Libraries Martin R. Kalfatovic Suzanne C. Pilsk Smithsonian Institution Libraries LITA Forum 6 October 2007 Denver, Colorado MARTIN R. KALFATOVIC :: SUZANNE C. PILSK :: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES :: LITA FORUM 2007 :: DENVER

Slide 2: BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, 1859 MARTIN R. KALFATOVIC :: SUZANNE C. PILSK :: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES :: LITA FORUM 2007 :: DENVER

Slide 3: BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY Boutique Scanning Scanning back  cameras All special handling  Slow production  Expensive  MARTIN R. KALFATOVIC :: SUZANNE C. PILSK :: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES :: LITA FORUM 2007 :: DENVER

Slide 4: BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY Rare Books Obvious choice  “Pretty pictures”  MARTIN R. KALFATOVIC :: SUZANNE C. PILSK :: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES :: LITA FORUM 2007 :: DENVER

Slide 5: BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY Rare Books Rarely had textual  access (OCR, etc.) Difficult to link to  other materials MARTIN R. KALFATOVIC :: SUZANNE C. PILSK :: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES :: LITA FORUM 2007 :: DENVER

Slide 6: BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY Mass Scanning Projects Google Books  MSN Live  Internet Archive/Open  Content Alliance MARTIN R. KALFATOVIC :: SUZANNE C. PILSK :: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES :: LITA FORUM 2007 :: DENVER

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Slide 8: BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY Difficult (impossible?)  to repurpose much of the material Quality of images  often questionable “Frankenbooks”  Sketchy / inaccurate  bibliographic data MARTIN R. KALFATOVIC :: SUZANNE C. PILSK :: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES :: LITA FORUM 2007 :: DENVER

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Slide 10: BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY Content is more re-  purposable than Google Content not fully open  Nice search interface  Still, no context!  MARTIN R. KALFATOVIC :: SUZANNE C. PILSK :: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES :: LITA FORUM 2007 :: DENVER

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Slide 12: BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY Open Access  Hodge-podge of collections  Interface hard to use!  Still, no, or very little context  MARTIN R. KALFATOVIC :: SUZANNE C. PILSK :: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES :: LITA FORUM 2007 :: DENVER

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Slide 15: BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY United States Exploring  Expedition Biologia Centrali-Americana  MARTIN R. KALFATOVIC :: SUZANNE C. PILSK :: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES :: LITA FORUM 2007 :: DENVER

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Slide 17: BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY Biologia Centrali-  Americana Large scale content and  repurposing text Innotaxa  MARTIN R. KALFATOVIC :: SUZANNE C. PILSK :: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES :: LITA FORUM 2007 :: DENVER

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Slide 21: BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY Our Man Sherborn – the Squire Cataloger at heart  Slowly went through every  relevant text looking for names Created an index that was useful  as soon as he started Index AND Bibliography of  relevant texts from 1758 through 1850 MARTIN R. KALFATOVIC :: SUZANNE C. PILSK :: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES :: LITA FORUM 2007 :: DENVER

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Slide 24: BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY • Re-keying of data • Parsing data • Using tools to harvest out data • Manually matching data • Wealth of information locked on the page is being liberated! MARTIN R. KALFATOVIC :: SUZANNE C. PILSK :: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES :: LITA FORUM 2007 :: DENVER

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Slide 27: BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY Current Uses  Look up individual species  Batch whole data sets for  comparisons Future Possibilities  Updated species information  Accurate images of species  Geographic distributions  Other databases can link (such as  uBio) Future prioritizing of scans  MARTIN R. KALFATOVIC :: SUZANNE C. PILSK :: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES :: LITA FORUM 2007 :: DENVER

Slide 28: BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY Demonstration I: Index Animalium and Nomenclature Zoologicus http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/indexanimalium/  http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/  MARTIN R. KALFATOVIC :: SUZANNE C. PILSK :: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES :: LITA FORUM 2007 :: DENVER

Slide 29: BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY Nomina si nescis, perit et cognitio rerum Who knoweth not the name, knoweth not the subject ~ Linnaeus, 1737, Critica Botanica n. 210 MARTIN R. KALFATOVIC :: SUZANNE C. PILSK :: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES :: LITA FORUM 2007 :: DENVER

Slide 30: BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY Over 250 years of  systematic description of life Systema naturae (10th ed.  1758) by Carl von Linné MARTIN R. KALFATOVIC :: SUZANNE C. PILSK :: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES :: LITA FORUM 2007 :: DENVER

Slide 31: BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY Binomial Nomenclature Genus name and  Species epithet or descriptor Latin or Latin-ized  Bill Gates' Flower Fly  Eristalis gatesi  Thompson MARTIN R. KALFATOVIC :: SUZANNE C. PILSK :: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES :: LITA FORUM 2007 :: DENVER

Slide 32: BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY St. Louis Code of  International Code of Botanical Nomenclature International Code of  Zoological Nomenclature International Code of  Phylogenetic Nomenclature MARTIN R. KALFATOVIC :: SUZANNE C. PILSK :: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES :: LITA FORUM 2007 :: DENVER

Slide 33: BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY Index Animalium’s Citation: albimanus Delphinus, T. R. Peale in Wilkes, Expl. Exped. VIII. 1848, 33 On page 33, of volume 8 of Charles Wilke’s 1848 publication:Narrative of the United State Exploring Expedition the Delphinus albmimanus was first named by T.R. Peale. MARTIN R. KALFATOVIC :: SUZANNE C. PILSK :: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES :: LITA FORUM 2007 :: DENVER

Slide 34: BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY Agatea violaris Type specimen from the U.S. National Herbarium (Smithsonian Institution) collected by the United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 MARTIN R. KALFATOVIC :: SUZANNE C. PILSK :: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES :: LITA FORUM 2007 :: DENVER

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Slide 36: BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY Specimen - Plate or other visual image - Taxonomic description - MARTIN R. KALFATOVIC :: SUZANNE C. PILSK :: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES :: LITA FORUM 2007 :: DENVER

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Slide 38: BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY The cited half-life of publications in taxonomy is longer than in any other scientific discipline *** The decay rate is longer than in any scientific discipline ~ Macro-economic case for open access, Tom Moritz MARTIN R. KALFATOVIC :: SUZANNE C. PILSK :: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES :: LITA FORUM 2007 :: DENVER

Slide 39: BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY Taxonomic  descriptions must be published for the name to be valid Publications must be  available to the public through trusted sources Libraries have been  the traditional place MARTIN R. KALFATOVIC :: SUZANNE C. PILSK :: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES :: LITA FORUM 2007 :: DENVER

Slide 40: BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY Specimen collections  Databases  Publications  Observations  ‘Gray’ literature  Index cards  Field notebooks  MARTIN R. KALFATOVIC :: SUZANNE C. PILSK :: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES :: LITA FORUM 2007 :: DENVER

Slide 41: BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 US & Canada Europe Mexico & C. South America America Biologia Centrali-Americana. Edited by Frederick Ducane Godman and Osbert Salvin. London : Pub. for the editors by R. H. Porter, 1879-1915 MARTIN R. KALFATOVIC :: SUZANNE C. PILSK :: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES :: LITA FORUM 2007 :: DENVER

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Slide 43: BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY Vishwas Chavan travels a lot. An informatician based at the National Chemical Laboratory in Pune, India, he collects data on what types of animal live where in India to enter into a biodiversity database … Much of the information Chavan seeks is in old, out-of-print tomes … To find them, Chavan has spent years trailing around libraries. He dreams of the day when books such as these are scanned and made available as digital files on the Internet. “Science in the Web Age: The Real Death of Print” by Andreas von Bubnoff Nature 438, 550-552 1 December 2005 MARTIN R. KALFATOVIC :: SUZANNE C. PILSK :: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES :: LITA FORUM 2007 :: DENVER

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Slide 47: BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY What is Biodiversity? Ecosystems and  landscapes Diversity of species  Genetic variability within  species MARTIN R. KALFATOVIC :: SUZANNE C. PILSK :: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES :: LITA FORUM 2007 :: DENVER

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Slide 52: BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY • Wholesome food • Drinkable water • Breathable air • Stable climate for – Forestry – Agriculture – Fisheries • Waste decomposition • Bioremediation • Invasive species • Pest control • Ecotourism MARTIN R. KALFATOVIC :: SUZANNE C. PILSK :: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES :: LITA FORUM 2007 :: DENVER

Slide 53: BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY • Pharmaceuticals • Genomics • Proteomics • Bioengineering • Biotechnology • Molecular design • Imitating nature • Designer organisms • Renewable feedstocks • Envirofriendly • Manufacturing processes MARTIN R. KALFATOVIC :: SUZANNE C. PILSK :: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES :: LITA FORUM 2007 :: DENVER

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Slide 55: BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY 2003, Telluride. Encyclopedia of Life meeting  February 2005. London. Library and Laboratory: the  Marriage of Research, Data and Taxonomic Literature May 2005. Washington. Ground work for the  Biodiversity Heritage Library June 2006. Washington. Organizational and  Technical meeting August 2006. New York Botanical Garden. BHL  Director’s Meeting. October 2006. St. Louis/San Francisco. Technical  meetings February 2007. Museum of Comparative Zoology.  Organizational meeting May 2007. Encylopedia of Life Launch. Washington  DC. September 2007. Missouri Botanical Garden.  Technical and Organizational Meeting. St. Louis, Missouri. MARTIN R. KALFATOVIC :: SUZANNE C. PILSK :: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES :: LITA FORUM 2007 :: DENVER

Slide 56: BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY American Museum of  Natural History (New York) Field Museum (Chicago)  Natural History Museum  (London) Smithsonian Institution  (Washington) Missouri Botanical Garden  (St. Louis) MARTIN R. KALFATOVIC :: SUZANNE C. PILSK :: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES :: LITA FORUM 2007 :: DENVER

Slide 57: BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY New York Botanical Garden  (New York) Royal Botanic Garden, Kew  Botany Libraries, Harvard  University Ernst Mayr Library of the  Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University Marine Biological Laboratory  / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution MARTIN R. KALFATOVIC :: SUZANNE C. PILSK :: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES :: LITA FORUM 2007 :: DENVER

Slide 58: BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY • Core literature pre-1923: 400,000 (80 million pages) • All pre-1923: 600-750,000 (120-150 million pages) • All literature: 1.4-1.6 million (280-320 million pages) MARTIN R. KALFATOVIC :: SUZANNE C. PILSK :: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES :: LITA FORUM 2007 :: DENVER

Slide 59: BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY Most literature is in the developed world  the Northern  Hemisphere Most Biodiversity is in developing world  the Southern  Hemisphere MARTIN R. KALFATOVIC :: SUZANNE C. PILSK :: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES :: LITA FORUM 2007 :: DENVER

Slide 60: BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY Most literature is in large libraries  formed in the 19th century MARTIN R. KALFATOVIC :: SUZANNE C. PILSK :: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES :: LITA FORUM 2007 :: DENVER

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Slide 62: BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY Who has what? What should we scan and when? Monographs vs Serials Series treated as separates Can it be found and used once scanned? MARTIN R. KALFATOVIC :: SUZANNE C. PILSK :: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES :: LITA FORUM 2007 :: DENVER

Slide 63: BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY Initial Metadata Analysis:  We have 1.3 million catalogue records  73% are monographs (remainder are serials at title- level)  63% is English language material. The next most popular language (9%) is German.  About 30% of material was published before 1923. MARTIN R. KALFATOVIC :: SUZANNE C. PILSK :: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES :: LITA FORUM 2007 :: DENVER

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Slide 66: BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY Scalable Mass Scanning Contracts  Firewalls  Bathrooms  Security  Loading docks  Trucks  MARTIN R. KALFATOVIC :: SUZANNE C. PILSK :: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES :: LITA FORUM 2007 :: DENVER

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Slide 70: BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY Mass Scanning Workflow Pick lists  Packing lists  Serials management  Monographic management  Stickers for books  MARTIN R. KALFATOVIC :: SUZANNE C. PILSK :: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES :: LITA FORUM 2007 :: DENVER

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Slide 72: BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY Demonstration II: Workflow Tools MARTIN R. KALFATOVIC :: SUZANNE C. PILSK :: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES :: LITA FORUM 2007 :: DENVER

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Slide 78: BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY Stable URL  Handle  DOI  BICI/SICI  http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org ISSN  ISBN  MARTIN R. KALFATOVIC :: SUZANNE C. PILSK :: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES :: LITA FORUM 2007 :: DENVER

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Slide 80: BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY Biologia Centrali-Americana :zoology, botany and  archaeology Mammalia  Aves v. 1  Is it …  Or Aves v. 4  Reptilia and Batrachia  Biologia Centrali-Americana : Aves  v. 1 Introduction -- Subclass Aves Carinate. Order  Passeres. v. 2 Subclass Aves Carinate. Order[s]: Passeres (contd.),  Macrochires, Pici, Coccyges, Psitta MARTIN R. KALFATOVIC :: SUZANNE C. PILSK :: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES :: LITA FORUM 2007 :: DENVER

Slide 81: BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY Zea mays L. Sp. Pl. 2: 971-972. 1753. Title: Species Plantarum TL2: 4.769 Tropicos Pub_id: 1071 IPNI Pub_id:1071-2 Volume: 2 Start Page: 971 End Page: 972 Year Published: 1753 http://hdl.handle.net/1234567/9876 http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/358992 MARTIN R. KALFATOVIC :: SUZANNE C. PILSK :: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES :: LITA FORUM 2007 :: DENVER

Slide 82: BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY Page turning, multiple views, translations  PDF “Grab-n-Go”  OCR Text Stellaria ongipes ? Goldie. Cornwalli Silene acaWlis, L. Woman Islands. Sawfraga oppositifolia, L. Kakkidlarn Cornwallis Island. Sa4mfraga cerua, De Cand. Ukaari; Sairaga csepitosa, L. Wolstenholme Cornwallis Island. Saxfraga rimdaris, De Cand. Whale Sad~ raga nivalis, L. Cornwallis Isla Ptentilla emarginata? Pursh. Wolste Dipena Lapponica, L. Whale Fish Isl Pyrola rotndifolia, L. Whale Fish Isla Casiope tetragona, Don. Ichauti. Vaccinium uliginosum, L. Loiseleuria procumbens, L. Whale F MARTIN R. KALFATOVIC :: SUZANNE C. PILSK :: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES :: LITA FORUM 2007 :: DENVER

Slide 83: BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY Machine-readable literature <genus>Polygonum</genus> <species>viviparm</species>, <author>L.</author> <locality>Bushnan Island.</locality> Created via automated or semi-automated means. MARTIN R. KALFATOVIC :: SUZANNE C. PILSK :: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES :: LITA FORUM 2007 :: DENVER

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Slide 87: BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY 10.3 million name strings in  NameBank Uses sophisticated algorithm  (TaxonGrab) to locate likely name strings in OCR text Iterative processing of BHL  texts will both increase the number of name strings in NameBank and increase the accuracy of name string recognition MARTIN R. KALFATOVIC :: SUZANNE C. PILSK :: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES :: LITA FORUM 2007 :: DENVER

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Slide 89: BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY Demonstration III: Taxonomic Intelligence http://www.ubio.org  MARTIN R. KALFATOVIC :: SUZANNE C. PILSK :: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES :: LITA FORUM 2007 :: DENVER

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Slide 93: BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY Demonstration IV: BHL Portal http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org  MARTIN R. KALFATOVIC :: SUZANNE C. PILSK :: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES :: LITA FORUM 2007 :: DENVER

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Slide 95: BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY Funding from the  MacArthur and Sloan Foundations Part of the larger  Encyclopedia of Life project MARTIN R. KALFATOVIC :: SUZANNE C. PILSK :: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES :: LITA FORUM 2007 :: DENVER

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Slide 98: BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY Biodiversity Synthesis Center Heritage Field Museum Library Informatics Marine Biological Laboratory & MOBOT Secretariat Education & Smithsonian Outreach Smithsonian/Harvard Serine Molecule MARTIN R. KALFATOVIC :: SUZANNE C. PILSK :: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES :: LITA FORUM 2007 :: DENVER

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Slide 102: BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY Let us … rejoice in the fact, that we have realised what no other kingdom can boast of, and that such vast and harmoniously related accumulation of knowledge is gathered together around a library Charles Darwin, et al, 1858 MARTIN R. KALFATOVIC :: SUZANNE C. PILSK :: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES :: LITA FORUM 2007 :: DENVER

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Slide 104: BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY Thanks to:  Chris Freeland, Missouri Botanical Garden  Neil Thomson, Natural History Museum, London  David Remsen, Global Biodiversity Information Facility  Neil Sarkar, Marine Biological Laboratory/Woods Hole  Oceanographic Institution Anna Weitzman, National Museum of Natural History  Chris Lyal, Natural History Museum, London  The staff at the Internet Archive  Images from  The Galaxy of Images, Smithsonian Libraries (  www.sil.si.edu/imagegalaxy) NASA, Visible Earth Project  Martin R. Kalfatovic   Diane Rielinger MARTIN R. KALFATOVIC :: SUZANNE C. PILSK :: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES :: LITA FORUM 2007 :: DENVER

Slide 105: BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY Biodiversity Heritage Library http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/  Encyclopedia of Life http://www.eol.org/  Smithsonian Institution Libraries http://www.sil.si.edu/  Universal Biological Indexer and Organizer http://www.ubio.org/  Sherborn’s Index Animalium http://  www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/indexanimalium/ Neave’s Nomenclator Zoologicus http://  www.ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ United States Exploring Expedition http://  www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollections/usexex/index.htm Biologia Centrali-Americana  http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/bca/ Botanicus http://www.botanicus.org/  MARTIN R. KALFATOVIC :: SUZANNE C. PILSK :: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES :: LITA FORUM 2007 :: DENVER