Article Repository Use Cases
Use cases & user communities served by the BHL Article Repository
1) Individual Scholar
An individual scholar will have dozens to hundreds of PDFs (and other document formats) from a wide variety of articles on their local hard drives or network shares. They may manage these references in a reference management system like Zotero, RefWorks, or EndNote, or they may just have undescribed documents on the file system. They may have descriptive metadata for the article (including Journal Title, Article Title, Author(s), Keyword(s), Abstract), but in most cases probably don't. Providing the interface was easy, they would be happy to have the long-term administration of these files handled by a larger outfit such as the BHL.
2) Specialist Groups
Specialist Groups maintain bibliographies and other citations to literature of interest to their shared area of study (Decapoda, Mammalia, Ants, Fish). Many of these citations will be from contemporary (post-1923) publications. Many will not be digitized. Some will be present in BHL scanned content. They will include journals and monographs. Specialist groups may wish to have or need to have functionality to support provisional/semi-private access and full public access.
3) Partner Organizations
Partner Organizations will share their already digitized content with BHL for hosting, display, and value-added service integration. Some Partner Organizations will have already digitized their content, some will be asking BHL for guidance. In either case, we will need high quality metadata provided along with the scans or created after ingest. Some of these partner organizations will have article or chapter-based texts.
4) BHL Scanning
Articles exist within the full scanned content in the BHL Portal. Users can group pages into articles and submit bibliographic metadata to be bundled into a PDF document.
5) Searching
- A researcher enters a rare taxon name on Google, one of the hits displayed is from an article in the BHL. S/he clicks on the link and finds the article.
- A researcher is reading a digital version of a biodiversity article. Checking the citations, s/he finds a reference to a 1958 article on the topic. S/he clicks on the citation and is linked to the version in the article repository through a DOI assigned to the BHL article or, maybe through magic.
- Someone searching the BHL enters a personal or taxon name. Results from individual articles or monographs are displayed together for the user to select and read or download.
