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VALA2022 Onsite Session 16 Kearney

#RetroPIDs: the future of our digitised past

VALA2022 CONCURRENT 16

Wednesday 15 June 2022, 15:10 – 15:40

Nicole Kearney
  • Manager, Biodiversity Heritage Library Australia
  • Museums Victoria

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In October 2020, the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) launched a new initiative to retrospectively assign persistent identifiers (#RetroPIDs) to the 60 million pages of literature on the BHL website, and thus bring this foundation of the world’s biodiversity knowledge into the modern linked network of scholarly research. This paper presents both the achievements and the challenges of this critical work, and details how it engaged and empowered the global BHL community at a time when many of our libraries were closed and our usual work of digitising library materials was either impossible or severely restricted.

Biography

Nicole Kearney manages the Australian branch of the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) and leads the BHL’s global Persistent Identifier Working Group (Team #RetroPIDs). She is a zoologist and science communicator striving to link all biodiversity knowledge online and to make the world’s biodiversity literature openly accessible and discoverable for everyone.

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VALA2020 Session 1 Kearney

The Biodiversity Heritage Library and the evolution of uber-discoverability

VALA2020 CONCURRENT SESSION 1
Tuesday 11 February 2020, 11:25 – 11:55

Nicole Kearney
  • Manager Biodiversity Heritage Library Australia
  • Museums Victoria

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2020 marks the 10-year anniversary of Australia’s partnership with the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), a world-wide consortium of libraries digitising their biodiversity literature and making it openly accessible online. This paper celebrates this milestone by detailing the major accessibility and discoverability advances that have been achieved over the past decade, in the context of the Australian branch of the project, and will discuss the BHL’s ongoing evolution from being “just” the world’s largest online repository of biodiversity literature to becoming a fully searchable, persistently linkable source of big data, and thus an uber-discoverable online library.

 

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VALA2018 Session 9 Kearney

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‘DOI’ng the right thing: assigning digital object identifiers to legacy content

VALA2018 CONCURRENT SESSION  9
Wednesday 14 February 2018, 10:50 – 11:20

Nicole Kearney and Elycia Wallis

Museums Victoria

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Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) have revolutionised the way we locate, access, use and reference scholarly content online. Academic publishers are expected to adhere to this international standard for new publications, but what about legacy publications? Despite the fact that there is now a substantial volume of legacy literature online, there are significant questions around its ownership, management and accessibility. This paper will examine the issues and benefits associated with assigning DOIs to current and legacy literature, who can assign them, the difference between easy and open access, and the future of creating order amongst this massively expanding resource.

 

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VALA2016 Session 13 Kearney

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In the words of our field naturalists: an adventure in digitisation and transcription

VALA2016 CONCURRENT SESSION 13: Digitisation Adventures
Thursday 11 February 2016, 11:25 – 11:55
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2016-proceedings/vala2016-session-13-kearney

Nicole Kearney and Elycia Wallis

Museum Victoria

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Historic field diaries chronicle the expeditions undertaken over time to explore and discover the natural history of the world. They provide invaluable insights into past species distribution and abundance, as well as the trials and wonders experienced on historic expeditions. However, despite the wealth of information they contain, field diaries are a hugely underutilised resource. This paper will discuss why this is the case and how, with the help of crowd-sourced volunteers, the field diaries in Museum Victoria’s collection are being made more accessible. Cataloguing, digitisation and transcription procedures are detailed, together with how this content is being put online.

 

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