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Inspiring discovery through free access to biodiversity knowledge...
On March 2013, with support from the National Science Foundation's Advance in Biological Informatics program and in collaboration with our Australian colleagues at Museum Victoria, BHL updated its...
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The Collector Connection: United States Geological Survey
This is the final post of a joint blog series by the Field Book Project (FBP) and the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), showcasing examples of digital connections between collectors, field book...
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BHL Day at the Melbourne Museum, opening event for the 5th Global BHL meeting
Ely Wallis (left) and Tim HartBHL Australia and the Melbourne Museum hosted "BHL Day" at the museum on 31 January 2014. Representatives of all the global BHL nodes (with the exception of BHL Egypt)...
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Helping Out with Diverse Interests in Biodiversity: Taxonomy of Molluscs and...
Prof. Hamish Spencer (right) and his long-time collaborator, Prof. Jon Waters (left) examining the holdfast of a brown alga, Durvillaea poha, a species they and a student of theirs described after...
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5th Global BHL Meeting, Lorne, Australia
Representatives from BHL-Global nodes at the 5th Global BHL Meeting The 5th Global Biodiversity Heritage Library Meeting was held in Lorne, Australia, February 1-2, 2014. Representatives from each of...
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2014 Annual BHL meeting held in New York City, March 10-11, 2014
BHL member and affiliates met in New York City for the 2014 Annual Meeting (10-11 March 2014). The annual meeting is a chance for the leaders of BHL members and affiliates to learn what is happening...
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First Meeting of the Mining Biodiversity project
Meet our international partners to extract data from BHL Mining Biodiversity (MiBio project) is one of the projects that won during the third round of the transatlantic Digging Into Data Challenge, a...
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BHL and EOL team up for NESCent Research Sprint
Research teams at the NESCent-EOL-BHL Research Sprint. Photograph by Cyndy Parr.In early February, the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) hosted the EOL-BHL Research Sprint. NESCent,...
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PDF Generation restored...
Dear BHL users:We are glad to inform you that our IT staff has solved the technical difficulties found with our PDF Generation process. We have tested the service and it seems to be working well.We...
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BHL Technical Advisory Group meets at the Missouri Botanical Garden
For the 2014 BHL Technical Meeting, the BHL Technical Advisory Group (TAG) met at the Missouri Botanical Garden (MBG) (2-3 April 2014) with William Ulate (Technical Director) and Martin Kalfatovic (BHL...
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Biodiversity Heritage Library Adds Washington University as New Member
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), headquartered at the Smithsonian Libraries, welcomes Washington University Libraries (St. Louis, Missouri) as a new member. The 14th member of the BHL...
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BHL Program Director gives keynote talk at the EOD Conference 2014
Helge Knuettel(University of Regensburg)introducing talkOn 11 April 2014, BHL Program Director Martin Kalfatovic gave a keynote address at the EOD Conference 2014. The conference, "EOD Conference 2014:...
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BHL Nominated for a Zedler Award for Free and Open Knowledge
BHL is honored to learn that we’ve been nominated for a Zedler Award by Wikimedia Deutschland. This award acknowledges contributions of individuals, groups or projects who have made contributions to...
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BHL's Latest News!
BHL Spring 2014 NewsletterThe last several months have been an intense and exciting period of growth and expansion for BHL. Not only has the steady growth of collections continued but BHL as an...
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Frame-worthy Fauna, Flora, . . . and Fossils?
Over the past few months, I’ve been working as the Biodiversity Heritage Library Flickr Content Volunteer. As someone who really values the cross-section between art and science, it’s a fascinating...
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On April 30, 2014 I attended the Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries (CBHL) annual conference at the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden in Richmond, VA. CBHL describes itself as, "an...
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The Life of a Field Biologist and Practical Biodiversity Informatician: Cam Webb
As part of our regular BHL & Our Users series, Connie Rinaldo (MCZ Librarian and BHL Executive Committee Member) recently caught up with Cam Webb, a Senior Research Scientist at the Arnold...
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Transcribing the Field Notes of William Brewster
Ivory-billed woodpecker from Brewster's journal of 1890William Brewster (1851-1919) was a renowned American amateur ornithologist, first president of the Massachusetts Audubon Society, and a president...
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Biodiversity Heritage Library Adds University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign...
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Main LibraryThe Biodiversity Heritage Library, headquartered at the Smithsonian Libraries, welcomes the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a new...
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Nine Smithsonian Field Books Now in BHL!
The Biodiversity Heritage Library is pleased to announce that nine of the Smithsonian field books that were cataloged and imaged as part of the Field Book Project are now available through the BHL...
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