The #LivingData2025 conference is starting soon. I'm attending virtually and will be presenting on a very simple workflow for extracting #biodiversity data from the #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary My presentation has been prerecorded and can be seen here www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySyi... #Wikidata
Integrating research expedition data: from BHL into the Wikiverse
YouTube video by Siobhan Leachman
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October 20, 2025 at 6:58 PM
The #LivingData2025 conference is starting soon. I'm attending virtually and will be presenting on a very simple workflow for extracting #biodiversity data from the #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary My presentation has been prerecorded and can be seen here www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySyi... #Wikidata
📢 The #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary is entering a bold new chapter – and we need your help! Today we release our official Call for Support. We’re seeking new hosts for BHL’s staff, infrastructure, and services. Learn more: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/06/tran... #BHLTransition #ILoveBHL
June 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM
📢 The #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary is entering a bold new chapter – and we need your help! Today we release our official Call for Support. We’re seeking new hosts for BHL’s staff, infrastructure, and services. Learn more: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/06/tran... #BHLTransition #ILoveBHL
A press release is out about the Biodiversity Heritage Library. From 1 January 2026 the Smithsonian will no longer host the administrative functions of BHL. BHL is looking for a new home. For further information see blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/04/new-...
#ILoveBHL #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary
#ILoveBHL #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary
A New Future for the Biodiversity Heritage Library
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives. A global consortium of over 660 contributors, BHL has made more …
blog.biodiversitylibrary.org
April 22, 2025 at 9:32 PM
A press release is out about the Biodiversity Heritage Library. From 1 January 2026 the Smithsonian will no longer host the administrative functions of BHL. BHL is looking for a new home. For further information see blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/04/new-...
#ILoveBHL #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary
#ILoveBHL #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary
A mesmerising one!
Insect Life (1921)
Author: Charles Aubrey Ealand (1877 -1941)
#NaturalHistoryMuseum #BookSky #Shelfie #BookCovers #Insects #Butterfly
⬆️Search across our #entomology collections via our catalogue and view a digitised copy via #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary see bio link.
Insect Life (1921)
Author: Charles Aubrey Ealand (1877 -1941)
#NaturalHistoryMuseum #BookSky #Shelfie #BookCovers #Insects #Butterfly
⬆️Search across our #entomology collections via our catalogue and view a digitised copy via #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary see bio link.
April 16, 2025 at 9:16 AM
A mesmerising one!
Insect Life (1921)
Author: Charles Aubrey Ealand (1877 -1941)
#NaturalHistoryMuseum #BookSky #Shelfie #BookCovers #Insects #Butterfly
⬆️Search across our #entomology collections via our catalogue and view a digitised copy via #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary see bio link.
Insect Life (1921)
Author: Charles Aubrey Ealand (1877 -1941)
#NaturalHistoryMuseum #BookSky #Shelfie #BookCovers #Insects #Butterfly
⬆️Search across our #entomology collections via our catalogue and view a digitised copy via #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary see bio link.
BHL Australia's Digitisation Coordinator, Jack Eastaugh, will be talking about the #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary on #ABC radio this Thursday. Listen in to find out how we're making Australia's biodiversity knowledge freely accessible to the world. @biodivlibrary.bsky.social @bhl-au.bsky.social #BHLib
Exciting news! We will be on #ABC Victorian Statewide Drive with Prue Bentley to talk about #BHL Australia and the momentous milestone of 200,000 pages and 1000 volumes of Museums Victoria content digitised.
Listen to us live on Thursday at 3:30pm at www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Listen to us live on Thursday at 3:30pm at www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Victorian Statewide Drive with Prue Bentley - ABC listen
With newsbreaking radio and innovative programming, we explore the richness, diversity and culture of regional living.
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April 9, 2025 at 6:13 AM
BHL Australia's Digitisation Coordinator, Jack Eastaugh, will be talking about the #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary on #ABC radio this Thursday. Listen in to find out how we're making Australia's biodiversity knowledge freely accessible to the world. @biodivlibrary.bsky.social @bhl-au.bsky.social #BHLib
A fabulous blog on the technical trials, tribulations and triumphs of the tech team behind the @biodivlibrary.bsky.social #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary #LinkedData #Biodiversity #Libraries blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/02/bhl-...
BHL Technical Development: Year in Review
Building a More Resilient BHL: Improving Accessibility and Expanding Global Reach What does it take to make millions of pages of biodiversity literature accessible to a global audience? For the Bio…
blog.biodiversitylibrary.org
February 4, 2025 at 9:51 PM
A fabulous blog on the technical trials, tribulations and triumphs of the tech team behind the @biodivlibrary.bsky.social #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary #LinkedData #Biodiversity #Libraries blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/02/bhl-...
Nous serons très peu à avoir de l’intérêt pour Theophrastus
c. 371 – c. 287 av JC et son #historiaPlantarum
Mais
Voici quelques pages.
#botanica
#ancientbotanica
#biodiversityheritagelibrary
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/124499#...
c. 371 – c. 287 av JC et son #historiaPlantarum
Mais
Voici quelques pages.
#botanica
#ancientbotanica
#biodiversityheritagelibrary
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/124499#...
t.1 (1686) - Historia plantarum - Biodiversity Heritage Library
The Biodiversity Heritage Library works collaboratively to make biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.
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December 15, 2024 at 4:12 PM
Nous serons très peu à avoir de l’intérêt pour Theophrastus
c. 371 – c. 287 av JC et son #historiaPlantarum
Mais
Voici quelques pages.
#botanica
#ancientbotanica
#biodiversityheritagelibrary
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/124499#...
c. 371 – c. 287 av JC et son #historiaPlantarum
Mais
Voici quelques pages.
#botanica
#ancientbotanica
#biodiversityheritagelibrary
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/124499#...
Just added structured data into #Wikicommons for this category of images of African moths sourced from plates in the #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categor...
Category:Walsingham, 1891. African Micro-Lepidoptera - Wikimedia Commons
commons.wikimedia.org
December 8, 2024 at 3:47 AM
Just added structured data into #Wikicommons for this category of images of African moths sourced from plates in the #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categor...
A follow-up:
The most famous #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary female authors!
(ordered by number of Wiki sitelinks)
w.wiki/CHZ4
The most famous #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary female authors!
(ordered by number of Wiki sitelinks)
w.wiki/CHZ4
December 3, 2024 at 6:28 PM
A follow-up:
The most famous #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary female authors!
(ordered by number of Wiki sitelinks)
w.wiki/CHZ4
The most famous #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary female authors!
(ordered by number of Wiki sitelinks)
w.wiki/CHZ4
Query of the Day:
The most famous #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary authors!
(ordered by number of Wiki sitelinks)
w.wiki/CHYm
Some familiar faces there :)
#wikidata #SPARQL
The most famous #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary authors!
(ordered by number of Wiki sitelinks)
w.wiki/CHYm
Some familiar faces there :)
#wikidata #SPARQL
December 3, 2024 at 6:20 PM
Query of the Day:
The most famous #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary authors!
(ordered by number of Wiki sitelinks)
w.wiki/CHYm
Some familiar faces there :)
#wikidata #SPARQL
The most famous #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary authors!
(ordered by number of Wiki sitelinks)
w.wiki/CHYm
Some familiar faces there :)
#wikidata #SPARQL
Spent some time yesterday using #OpenRefine to add structured data to the #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary sourced images from the book The Fishes of Samoa in #WikimediaCommons. Such glorious images, now much more easily found.
December 3, 2024 at 6:07 PM
Spent some time yesterday using #OpenRefine to add structured data to the #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary sourced images from the book The Fishes of Samoa in #WikimediaCommons. Such glorious images, now much more easily found.
Lovely hubby has just arrived home. I've explained why I've yet to get up and get dressed. Yes dear reader, it's because I've been geeking out on African blood-sucking flies. I'm having a fabulous start to Sunday. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categor... #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary #SDC
November 30, 2024 at 8:19 PM
Lovely hubby has just arrived home. I've explained why I've yet to get up and get dressed. Yes dear reader, it's because I've been geeking out on African blood-sucking flies. I'm having a fabulous start to Sunday. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categor... #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary #SDC
I'm currently working on improving my #OpenRefine skills to assist me in adding structured data to #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary images in #Wikicommons. This will help folk find & reuse these gorgeous images. I'm very grateful for these instructions! commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons...
November 29, 2024 at 7:30 PM
I'm currently working on improving my #OpenRefine skills to assist me in adding structured data to #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary images in #Wikicommons. This will help folk find & reuse these gorgeous images. I'm very grateful for these instructions! commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons...
Butterflies Plate 11 (1925)
E.A. Séguy (French, 1890-1985)
#illustration #art #publicdomain #biodiversityheritagelibrary #insects
E.A. Séguy (French, 1890-1985)
#illustration #art #publicdomain #biodiversityheritagelibrary #insects
November 24, 2024 at 1:59 PM
Butterflies Plate 11 (1925)
E.A. Séguy (French, 1890-1985)
#illustration #art #publicdomain #biodiversityheritagelibrary #insects
E.A. Séguy (French, 1890-1985)
#illustration #art #publicdomain #biodiversityheritagelibrary #insects
#BHLDay2024 recordings are now up on youtube. Yours truly is on at around the 2hr 30min mark. I found all the presentations really interesting but particularly enjoyed Nicole Kearney's from BHL Australia. www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8O0... #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary #Wikipedia #Wikidata #Wikicommons
BHL Day 2024 | Year of the Cicada: Buzzing with 17 Years of Biodiversity Achievements
The BHL Day 2024 public symposium was presented on 16 May 2024, as part of the 2024 BHL Annual Meeting hosted at the Field Museum. Themed "Year of the Cicada: Buzzing with 17 Years of Biodiversity Achievements," the program included a keynote by Dr. Gene Kritsky on the dual emergence of Broods XIII and XIX of the periodical cicadas (Magicicada), as well as talks from local biodiversity experts and partners from across the BHL consortium sharing major achievements of the past 17 years. Learn more: https://s.si.edu/bhlday2024 00:00 - Welcome and Introduction by David Iggulden 02:10 - Dr. Gene Kritsky - "A Tale of Two Broods: The 2024 Emergence of Periodical Cicada Broods XIII and XIX" 47:44 - Kay Havens - "Managing Metacollections of Exceptional Species: Adapting Zoo Protocols for Better Botanic Garden Living Collection Management" 1:00:24 - Dmitry Mozzherin - "Scientific Names Index: How To Perfect It?" 1:15:11 - Roderic Page - "Articles, Annotation, and AI" 1:29:21 - Q&A 1:38:56 - Anderson Feijó - "How Have Pikas Successfully Colonized the Tibetan Plateau?" 1:54:01 - Maureen Turcatel - "Diversity and Evolutionary History of Horse Flies" 2:10:13 - Siobhan Leachman - "BHL and the Wikiverse" 2:24:36 - Nicole Kearney - "Unlocking Australia’s biodiversity: Celebrating 50 Australian BHL contributors" 2:39:35 - Q&A 2:58:17 - Closing Remarks by David Iggulden
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May 22, 2024 at 7:36 PM
#BHLDay2024 recordings are now up on youtube. Yours truly is on at around the 2hr 30min mark. I found all the presentations really interesting but particularly enjoyed Nicole Kearney's from BHL Australia. www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8O0... #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary #Wikipedia #Wikidata #Wikicommons
Organic chemistry in its applications to agriculture and physiology (von Liebig, 1840).BiodiversityHeritageLibrary <a href="http://sco.lt/7QQuOn" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://sco.lt/7QQuOn
Organic chemistry in its applications to agriculture and physiology (von Liebig, 1840). Biodiversity Heritage Library | Plant Biology Teaching Resources (Higher Education)
"One of the most remarkable features of modern times is the combination of large numbers of individuals representing the whole intelligence of nations, for the express purpose of advancing science by their united efforts. The influence of (scientific truths) upon mental culture is most beneficial...
sco.lt
September 23, 2014 at 2:53 PM
Organic chemistry in its applications to agriculture and physiology (von Liebig, 1840).BiodiversityHeritageLibrary <a href="http://sco.lt/7QQuOn" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://sco.lt/7QQuOn