BHL
Archive
This is a read-only archive of the BHL Staff Wiki as it appeared on Sept 21, 2018. This archive is searchable using the search box on the left, but the search may be limited in the results it can provide.

BHL Portal Home

Portal

{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:
-2008_LogAnalysis.doc is generated from Sawmill, our server stats software. This is a measure of our usage from the server perspective.

Enhancements/Desiderata
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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
Content
Platform
Features
Released
v.Prototype
Botanicus digital library
.Net/SQL Server
Names Finding
May 2007
v.1.0
BHL scanning by IA + Botanicus
.Net/SQL Server
Names Services, broad coverage of natural history materials.
Feb 2008
v.2.0
BHL@IA + Botanicus
Fedora
Open architecture delivered on petaboxes, OAI provider
By Dec 2009
v.3.0
BHL + EU partners
Fedora
Distributed architecture, multilanguage interface
TBD

Ingesting materials


Identifying characteristics/metadata of scanned objects

-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