"Exchange, sharing and mirroring cooperation," Biodiversity Heritage Library (hereinafter referred to as BHL) is always committed to comply with the philosophy while carrying out work. Recently, invited by the Biodiversity Committee of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mr. Thomas Garnett, the general director of BHL, Mr. Christopher D. Freeland, the director of Center for Bioinformatics of Missouri Botanical Garden and the technical director of BHL, Mr. Philipe Cryer, the technical developer of BHL and Ms. Catherine N. Norton, the director of the Library of the United States Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the working group of BHL-China (BHL-China) held a workshop on the project progress, technical details and modalities for cooperation and other issues in the discussion Prof. Dr. Li-Qiang Ji of the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences took part in the workshop.
The director of the BHL-China working group and the Documentation and Information Center of the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Prof. Dr. Jinzhong Cui, on behalf of the institute and BHL-working group firstly extended a warm welcome to the BHL colleagues. Thomas Gamett gave an overview on the background, membership, long-term plan and current progress of BHL. He stressed that, BHL was composed of a number of special libraries, but by no meant a simple digital library project. The technical director of BHL-China working group and the director assistant of the Documentation and Information Center of the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dr. Zheping Xu presented the architecture and the current status of BHL-China. At present, the core and key framework of BHL-China has been completed and the documentation collection as well as the extraction of entry from the scanned literature have also being carried out smoothly. Up to the end of 2009, 225 books, 127,021 pages, 130,910 Chinese name-Page records and 129,105 Latin name–Page records had already been online on BHL-China site. The attendees, especially the BHL-China headquarter colleagues were very excited about the great progress of BHL-China had made. They said, each work done by BHL-China, either the technical level of platform building and the quality and quantity of data accumulation or the overall framework and the long-term planning, was far beyond their expectations.
Subsequently, Ms. Catherine Norton, from her own practical experience of cooperation with the Internet Archive, vividly depicted the whole literature scanning workflow. Catherine Norton said that the mature techniques, professional equipments and rich experiences provided a solid guarantee to restore the historical literature with high quality. Catherine Norton also systematically introduced the copyright issue of several major member countries and areas of BHL and currently widely-used Creative Commons protocol. Chris Freeland and Philipe Cryer also provided a comprehensive introduction from the software and hardware’s viewpoint.
The BHL headquarter colleagues also visited the Library and the Network department of Documentation and Information Center Network of the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences. In the last session, the both sides discussed about the specific book digitization workflow, data-sharing methods as well as other relevant technical details and came to an agreement on the time and manner of further communication and next step. They both hoped that with the enthusiasm and commitment showed during the workshop, they would be able to work together more closely to push the project forward. The BHL headquarters will try to arrange a trip to USA for the BHL-China working group.
BHL-China Working Group members, Dr. Zhaogai Wang and Dr. Fenghong Liu, and Dr. Shao Qing from the office of Biodiversity Committee of the Chinese Academy of Sciences took part in the workshop throughout.
"Exchange, sharing and mirroring cooperation," Biodiversity Heritage Library (hereinafter referred to as BHL) is always committed to comply with the philosophy while carrying out work. Recently, invited by the Biodiversity Committee of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mr. Thomas Garnett, the general director of BHL, Mr. Christopher D. Freeland, the director of Center for Bioinformatics of Missouri Botanical Garden and the technical director of BHL, Mr. Philipe Cryer, the technical developer of BHL and Ms. Catherine N. Norton, the director of the Library of the United States Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the working group of BHL-China (BHL-China) held a workshop on the project progress, technical details and modalities for cooperation and other issues in the discussion Prof. Dr. Li-Qiang Ji of the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences took part in the workshop.
The director of the BHL-China working group and the Documentation and Information Center of the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Prof. Dr. Jinzhong Cui, on behalf of the institute and BHL-working group firstly extended a warm welcome to the BHL colleagues. Thomas Gamett gave an overview on the background, membership, long-term plan and current progress of BHL. He stressed that, BHL was composed of a number of special libraries, but by no meant a simple digital library project. The technical director of BHL-China working group and the director assistant of the Documentation and Information Center of the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dr. Zheping Xu presented the architecture and the current status of BHL-China. At present, the core and key framework of BHL-China has been completed and the documentation collection as well as the extraction of entry from the scanned literature have also being carried out smoothly. Up to the end of 2009, 225 books, 127,021 pages, 130,910 Chinese name-Page records and 129,105 Latin name–Page records had already been online on BHL-China site. The attendees, especially the BHL-China headquarter colleagues were very excited about the great progress of BHL-China had made. They said, each work done by BHL-China, either the technical level of platform building and the quality and quantity of data accumulation or the overall framework and the long-term planning, was far beyond their expectations.
Subsequently, Ms. Catherine Norton, from her own practical experience of cooperation with the Internet Archive, vividly depicted the whole literature scanning workflow. Catherine Norton said that the mature techniques, professional equipments and rich experiences provided a solid guarantee to restore the historical literature with high quality. Catherine Norton also systematically introduced the copyright issue of several major member countries and areas of BHL and currently widely-used Creative Commons protocol. Chris Freeland and Philipe Cryer also provided a comprehensive introduction from the software and hardware’s viewpoint.
The BHL headquarter colleagues also visited the Library and the Network department of Documentation and Information Center Network of the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences. In the last session, the both sides discussed about the specific book digitization workflow, data-sharing methods as well as other relevant technical details and came to an agreement on the time and manner of further communication and next step. They both hoped that with the enthusiasm and commitment showed during the workshop, they would be able to work together more closely to push the project forward. The BHL headquarters will try to arrange a trip to USA for the BHL-China working group.
BHL-China Working Group members, Dr. Zhaogai Wang and Dr. Fenghong Liu, and Dr. Shao Qing from the office of Biodiversity Committee of the Chinese Academy of Sciences took part in the workshop throughout.