Biodiversity Heritage Library for Europe
Biodiversity Heritage Library for Europe (BHL-Europe) is a geared at 3 years (2009-2012) was EU project to coordinate digitization of literature on biodiversity / biodiversity . It included 28 natural history museums, botanical gardens, libraries and other European institutions. BHL-Europe was launched in Berlin in May 2009 and saw itself as a European partner project of the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), an institution founded in 2005 by ten US and British libraries .
BHL-Europe was a best practice network, important components were the coordination of digitization and the creation of appropriate infrastructures, as well as the consolidation of various European digitization projects under a common, central and multilingual BHL portal. The literature should be made accessible under Open Access and Creative Commons licenses, and searchability should be improved (with the help of OCR text recognition ).
BHL-Europe was also responsible for creating structures for long-term storage of digitized information (durability of digital data).
Composition of BHL-Europe
The following 28 institutions acted as founding members of the BHL-Europe consortium in Berlin in May 2009:
- Museum of Natural History (Berlin) (project management)
- Natural History Museum (London)
- Národní Muzeum (Prague)
- European Digital Library Foundation (see Europeana )
- Applied Information Technology Research Association AIT (Graz)
- Atos Origin Integration France (Paris)
- Free University of Berlin
- Georg-August University of Göttingen ( AnimalBase )
- Natural History Museum Vienna
- Upper Austrian Provincial Museums (Linz)
- Museum and Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Warszawa)
- Hungarian Natural Science Museum (Budapest)
- University of Copenhagen
- Naturalis (suffering)
- National Botanic Garden of Belgium - Titmouse
- Royal Museum for Central Africa (Tervuren)
- Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
- Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris) ( Gallica )
- Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (Paris)
- Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Madrid)
- University of Florence
- Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
- Species 2000
- John Wiley & Sons
- Smithsonian Institution (Washington)
- Missouri Botanical Garden (St. Louis)
- Helsinki University
- Humboldt University of Berlin
Web links
- http://www.bhl-europe.eu in the internet archive.
- http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Individual evidence
- ^ Society for Biological Systematics, JPIC News 22 (2009)
- ↑ http://www.bhl-europe.eu/en/partners.php ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
