VALA2020 Session 1 Kearney

The Biodiversity Heritage Library and the evolution of uber-discoverability

VALA2020 CONCURRENT SESSION 1
Tuesday 11 February 2020, 11:25 – 11:55

Nicole Kearney
  • Manager Biodiversity Heritage Library Australia
  • Museums Victoria

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Abstract

2020 marks the 10-year anniversary of Australia’s partnership with the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), a world-wide consortium of libraries digitising their biodiversity literature and making it openly accessible online. This paper celebrates this milestone by detailing the major accessibility and discoverability advances that have been achieved over the past decade, in the context of the Australian branch of the project, and will discuss the BHL’s ongoing evolution from being “just” the world’s largest online repository of biodiversity literature to becoming a fully searchable, persistently linkable source of big data, and thus an uber-discoverable online library.

 

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VALA2016 Session 13 Kearney

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Nicole Kearney
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In the words of our field naturalists: an adventure in digitisation and transcription

VALA2016 CONCURRENT SESSION 13: Digitisation Adventures
Thursday 11 February 2016, 11:25 – 11:55
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2016-proceedings/vala2016-session-13-kearney

Nicole Kearney and Elycia Wallis

Museum Victoria

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Abstract

Historic field diaries chronicle the expeditions undertaken over time to explore and discover the natural history of the world. They provide invaluable insights into past species distribution and abundance, as well as the trials and wonders experienced on historic expeditions. However, despite the wealth of information they contain, field diaries are a hugely underutilised resource. This paper will discuss why this is the case and how, with the help of crowd-sourced volunteers, the field diaries in Museum Victoria’s collection are being made more accessible. Cataloguing, digitisation and transcription procedures are detailed, together with how this content is being put online.

 

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VALA2012 Session 14 Wallis

 

VALA2012 Session 14 Wallis

Collaborating locally, contributing globally: the Biodiversity Heritage Library in Australia

VALA2012 CONCURRENT SESSION 14: Museum Connections
Thursday 9 February 2012, 14:20 – 14:50
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2012-proceedings/vala2012-session-14-wallis

Elycia Wallis and Dave Matthews

Museum Victoria

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Thursday, February 09, 2012, 2:20 PM AUSEDT, 27 Minutes 39 Seconds.

Abstract

The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) aims to provide free and open access to digitised versions of out of copyright biological literature. In Australia, the Biodiversity Heritage Library – Australian node (BHL-Au) is the literature service of the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA). In this paper, the Australian node of the BHL will be discussed, with a focus on how the local collaboration of museums, herbaria and their libraries contributes to the global project aims.

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