BHL Tech Status Update Tech Director W.Ulate 2015.12.11
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The document provides a status update on the priorities and projects of the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). It discusses completed projects including processing pages for the Art of Life project and tagging over 1 million images on Flickr. Ongoing projects include the Purposeful Gaming project testing games to improve optical character recognition and the Mining Biodiversity project using text mining on biodiversity literature. Infrastructure improvements and assigning digital object identifiers to articles are also priorities.
BHL Tech Status Update Tech Director W.Ulate 2015.12.11
- 1. Status Update: what are BHL’s current priorities? William Ulate, Martin Kalfatovic S. Dillon Ripley Center Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 12 November 2015
- 2. Technical Group at MBG Mike Lichtenberg Developer Trish Rose-Sandler Data Analyst William Ulate Technical Director
- 3. Technical Support MBG IT Division Manage servers, systems and telecommunications. Installs software needed And others: MBL Smithsonian Internet Archive BHL-Australia BHL-Europe
- 6. BHL Work Plan 2015 - 2017 http://bit.ly/2136eP7
- 7. Priorities BHL Infrastructure at SIL DOI’s for Articles NEH Art of Life ٧ IMLS Purposeful Gaming To end by Nov. 30th IMLS Mining Biodiversity To end by Dec. 31st (1 year No-cost ext.)
- 8. Art of Life
- 9. Art of Life
- 10. Art of Life
- 11. Currently…. We have now processed the 35 million pages that we committed to for the project. Significantly more numbers of BHL images are now available on Flickr (see BHL blog post on tagging over 1 million images) We launched a selection of 19th century BHL images in the Zooniverse platform this week (see BHL blog post on Science Gossip)
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- 16. Purposeful gaming and BHL: engaging the public in improving and enhancing access to digital texts IMLS Grant Program: National Leadership Grants for Libraries Partners: Missouri Botanical Garden Harvard University Cornell University New York Botanical Garden P.I.: Trish Rose-Sandler, Missouri Botanical Garden Dates: Dec 2013 – Nov. 2015
- 17. Project objectives and benefits Test new means of crowdsourcing to support the enhancement of content in BHL Demonstrate if digital games are an effective tool for analyzing and improving digital outputs from OCR and transcription Benefits of gaming include: improved access to content by providing richer and more accurate data; an extension of limited staff resources; and exposure of library content to communities who may not know about the collections otherwise.
- 19. Purposeful Gaming Trish Rose-Sandler Principal Investigator Purposeful Gaming and BHL Smorball and Beanstalk were designed as part of the Purposeful Gaming and BHL project, which explores how digital games can make scanned content more accessible and searchable for cultural institutions. Based at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis, Missouri, “Purposeful Gaming and BHL” was established in 2013 through an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) grant and includes partners at Harvard University, Cornell University, and The New York Botanical Garden.
- 20. Best Serious Game Award at the Boston Festival of Indie Games 2015
- 22. OCR Improvements German text interpreted by the OCR process as: “unb auf ben ©elnrgen be6 fublic{)en”
- 23. AOCR Improvements Different resulting texts from parsing the phrase: “und auf den Gebirgen des südlichen Deutschlands” (“and on the mountains of southern Germany”) IA OCR OCR 2 Transcriptio n 1 Transcriptio n 2 1 unb und und und Ok 2 den ben den den Ok 3 ©elnrgen ©ebirgen Bebirgen Gebirgen X 4 be6 des de5 des Chk 5 fublic{)en fublichen Füdlichen Südlichen X 6 £)eittfc{)(anb6 Deutfchlanbs Deutfchlands Deutschland s X
- 25. Mining Biodiversity Mining Biodiversity: Enriching Biodiversity Heritage with Text Mining and Social Media One of the international projects that won in the third round of the 2013 Digging Into Data Challenge Promote the development of innovative computational techniques to apply into big data in the humanities and social sciences The National Centre for Text Mining (UK) Missouri Botanical Garden (US) Dalhousie University's Big Data Analytics Institute (Canada) Social Media Lab (Canada)
- 26. MiBIO: Mining Biodiversity 1. Automatic error correction of OCR text errors. 2. Crowdsource annotation of legacy texts with semantic metadata. 3. Adapt text mining techniques to extract terminology, entities and significant events automatically and to track terminology evolution over time. 4. Use Interactive visualization techniques to help users manage search results through next generation browsing capabilities, assisted by a semantic similarity network of important terms and entities. 5. Design of a social media layer, serving as an environment for diverse users to interact and collaborate on science, public education, awareness and outreach.
- 28. Crowdsource Markup Display text Species Profile Model category General/summary TaxonBiology Geographic range Distribution Habitat Habitat Food sources and feeding behavior TrophicStrategy Physical description (general) Description Physical description (detailed morphology) DiagnosticDescription
- 29. Thank you William Ulate BHL Technical Director Missouri Botanical Garden william.ulate@mobot.org Skype: william_ulate_r