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Summer Newsletter 2012


Welcome to the Biodiversity Heritage Library Newsletter

The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a global consortium of natural history and botanical institutions that cooperate to digitize and make freely available the biodiversity literature in their collections. 

 

 
BHL on a Global Scale
 
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The Global BHL Team
The Biodiversity Heritage Library is a growing international consortium, with program nodes in Europe, Australia, Brazil, Egypt and China, as well as the US and the UK. This summer we recognized BHL's global initiatives with the BHL-Europe, BHL-Global, and BHL-Africa meetings, held June 4-15, 2012, in Berlin, Germany, and Cape Town, South Africa. 

The BHL-Europe program officially came to an end April 30, 2012. At the summer meeting in Berlin, BHL-E staff demonstrated their accomplishments, which include a soon-to-be-released multi-lingual portal. Learn more.

Following the BHL-E meetings, staff participated in the third annual BHL-Global meeting, where issues such as project sustainability, content synchronization, and collaborative outreach initiatives were discussed. Global BHL by-laws were adopted and a Global Coordinating Executive Committee was elected. Learn more

After the European meetings, BHL hosted an organizational meeting in Cape Town, South Africa, to discuss the development of a BHL-Africa. A concept document was drafted and staff plan to officially announce the project in November, 2012. Learn more

 


BHL on iTunes U: New Collections
 
Linnaeus Collection on BHL iTunes U
Linnaeus Collection on BHL iTunes U
In February, BHL on iTunes U launched, allowing users to freely download select BHL content through iTunes for iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches. Learn more.

The initial launch included 8 collections organized around themes such as Extinct Species and Charles Darwin's Library. This summer, BHL launched two new iTunes U collections: Carl Linnaeus and Theodore Roosevelt. New collections will be released on a quarterly basis. Visit BHL on iTunes U to download free BHL content for your mobile device. 
 
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Tagging BHL Flickr Images
  

On April 25 and July 18, in collaboration with the Encyclopedia of Life, BHL staff hosted Flickr Tagging Parties at the Smithsonian 

Institution. Learn more

 

These events provided an opportunity to teach attendees how to add species name machine tags to BHL Flickr images, allowing them to

be automatically ingested onto EOL Species Pages. 

 

To learn more about how you can add tags to BHL images, click here.

   

Pinned Image on BHL Pinterest
Pinned Image on BHL Pinterest

BHL on Pinterest

On June 1, BHL launched on Pinterest, an online application that allows users to organize and share images from the web.

 

Images from the BHL corpus are "pinned" or uploaded to "Boards," or collections in Pinterest, and other users can "repin" or share, "like," and comment on those images. BHL currently has 13 collections and over 700 images on Pinterest. This tool offers another great opportunity to share BHL images with new audiences.

 

Visit the BHL Pinterest today!

 

 

In This Issue
BHL on a Global Scale
BHL on iTunes U: New Collections
Tagging BHL Flickr Images
BHL on Pinterest
Keep in Touch
 
 
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