Abstract:*Background/Question/Methods*
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL; "http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/":http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/), one of the cornerstones of the Encyclopedia of Life (eol.org), now contains nearly 13 million digitized pages of 12,000 titles comprised of 32,000 volumes of the published literature of biodiversity held in the collections of major natural history libraries. The BHL has made this literature available for open access and responsible use as a part of a gl… Show more
“…The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) [ 28 ] is an open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives [ 29 ]. Over the last 14 years over 58 million pages, from the 15 th to 21st centuries have been digitized and made accessible via stable URLs and DOIs.…”
Natural history collection data available digitally on the web have so far only made limited use of the potential of semantic links among themselves and with cross-disciplinary resources. In a pilot study, botanical collections of the Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities (CETAF) have therefore begun to semantically annotate their collection data, starting with data on people, and to link them via a central index system. As a result, it is now possible to query data on collectors across different collections and automatically link them to a variety of external resources. The system is being continuously developed and is already in production use in an international collection portal.
“…The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) [ 28 ] is an open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives [ 29 ]. Over the last 14 years over 58 million pages, from the 15 th to 21st centuries have been digitized and made accessible via stable URLs and DOIs.…”
Natural history collection data available digitally on the web have so far only made limited use of the potential of semantic links among themselves and with cross-disciplinary resources. In a pilot study, botanical collections of the Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities (CETAF) have therefore begun to semantically annotate their collection data, starting with data on people, and to link them via a central index system. As a result, it is now possible to query data on collectors across different collections and automatically link them to a variety of external resources. The system is being continuously developed and is already in production use in an international collection portal.
“…The online resources MolluscaBase/ WoRMS (MolluscaBase eds. 2022) and the Biodiversity Heritage Library (Rinaldo and Norton 2009) were used to locate primary literature and search within species descriptions. To identify eponym origins, the biographical information within '2,400 years of Malacology' (Coan and Kabat 2022) and 'Shellers from the Past and the Present' (Poppe and Poppe 2022) were also used.…”
BioOne Complete (complete.BioOne.org) is a full-text database of 200 subscribed and open-access titles in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences published by nonprofit societies, associations, museums, institutions, and presses.
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