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Portal
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http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/}
BHL Portal Requirements (Oct.-Dic.2011)
Portal Admin Instructions
Editing Wish List
Growth Estimates
2009_2011_GrowthRate.xls
Usage Stats
2009
2008
-2008_GoogleAnalytics.pdf is a measure of our usage from the user perspective. Important bits are:
- 207,416 visits
- 140,042 Absolute Unique Visitors
- 4:53 time on site (sticky!)
- Page 5 of the PDF: Nearly global coverage!!
- overall growth curve, showing steady increase in usage
-2008_LogAnalysis.doc is generated from Sawmill, our server stats software. This is a measure of our usage from the server perspective.
- 39.4 million hits
- 32.6 million page views
- 362.3 GB of data distributed to users
Enhancements/Desiderata
Add to the list!
Article Repository
Discussion Page with Links
djatoka
Feature enhancements - Feb 19,2009
About djatoka - became blog post
Issue Tracking
http://projects.biodiversitylibrary.org
Development Timeline
BHL Tech Timeline.xls updated 10/5/2007 cdf
BHL Versions
Version
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Content
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Platform
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Features
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Released
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v.Prototype
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Botanicus digital library
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.Net/SQL Server
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Names Finding
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May 2007
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v.1.0
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BHL scanning by IA + Botanicus
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.Net/SQL Server
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Names Services, broad coverage of natural history materials.
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Feb 2008
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v.2.0
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BHL@IA + Botanicus
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Fedora
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Open architecture delivered on petaboxes, OAI provider
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By Dec 2009
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v.3.0
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BHL + EU partners
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Fedora
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Distributed architecture, multilanguage interface
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TBD
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Ingesting materials
Identifying characteristics/metadata of scanned objects
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page of details here
Notes from trip to UIUC scanning center - June 13, 2007
UIUC Harvesting OCA content
Tim Cole's findings with IA's OAI interface - October 25, 2007
Notes from talk with Tim Cole, including code - July 31, 2007
Ingesting documents from IA
Notes from talk with Steve & Robert - August 15, 2007
Information on zquery in _metasource.xml:
zquery should have the form ...
{search type}={search term}
which gets passed into our PHP/YAZ framework to fetch a record
using the PHP/YAZ tools. basically, the zquery gets converted
to an RPN query using a CCL parser. you can learn a bit more here:
http://www.us.archive.org/biblio.php?f=info#bibliographics
the search types we currently support are:
http://www.us.archive.org/includes/biblio-config.xml
which map to the following library targets, and their corresponding
Bib-1 attributes:
http://www.us.archive.org/includes/ztargets.xml
http://www.us.archive.org/includes/zprofiles.xml