#bhl — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #bhl, aggregated by home.social.
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Hommage à Noël #Godin, l'entarteur 🎂 (1945-2026) RIP
avec Pierre #Desproges nous montrant la vraie nature du cuistre #BHL💩, "victime" d'un attentat pâtissier !
youtu.be/-d7I5xNIYsA
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Between Nature and Society: Empowering Research on the History of Science
Biodiversity Heritage Library Blog Reel, User Stories Interview/profile by Grace Costantino
#BHL #HistSTM #HistSci #CharlesDarwin
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A Bonanza For Fans Of The Natural World - The Digital Library Sharing 64 million Pages Of Scientific Knowledge With Everyone
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/18/natural-world-digital-biodiversity-heritage-library-scientific-knowledge-free-access-aoe ← shared technical media article
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https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ <-- shared BHL home page / data portal
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[glorious resource!]
“The Biodiversity Heritage Library improves research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.“
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“The Biodiversity Heritage Library [BHL} is an invaluable online archive of historic texts on species living and lost supplied by the world’s leading museums and universities...
Some go there to read about the wood that Victorian manufacturers used to make walking sticks. Others want to see an illustration of a Tasmanian tiger or marvel at the field diary of one of the first known botanists to explore the Antarctic.
Over the past 20 years, more than 64m pages have been made freely available through the... BHL – a digital treasure trove for fans of the natural world. More than 680 museums, universities, libraries and scientific institutions from China, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand to Europe, Africa, Mexico, Canada and the US, have contributed to the library.
This week, a report from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew... revealed the crucial role digitisation [like BHL’s] is playing in “transforming our ability to understand and respond to the climate and biodiversity crises”, but it was the creation of the BHL 20 years ago that first demonstrated how bringing centuries of scientific knowledge online can unlock transformative discoveries and insights about the natural world.
David Iggulden, who chairs the BHL executive committee alongside his job as head of data and digital, library and archives at RBG Kew, describes the library as an invaluable and “absolutely essential” resource for scientists in the field. But it is also used by scientific researchers, environmental historians, educators, art historians, artists, citizen scientists and members of the public who – like Iggulden – simply enjoy browsing its contents on a rainy weekend.
“I just get caught up in it sometimes, looking at the various collections,” he says. “I think it’s amazing that we can explore such a vast array of different collections from very different institutions.”
As well as published biodiversity literature and journals, there are letters, illustrations, climate records, field diaries, ecosystem profiles, distribution records and manuscripts containing the original collecting stories of a particular species or detailing voyages of discovery…”
#BiodiversityHeritageLibrary #BHL #Biodiversity #library #literature #illustrations #UK #texts #historic #reference #online #opendata #visualisation #museum #walkingstick #university #research #institute #species #ecosystems #habitat #data #digital #climatechange #response #reference #resource #correspondence #illustrations #records #manuscripts
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A bonanza for fans of the natural world: the digital library sharing 64m pages of scientific knowledge with everyone - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/18/natural-world-digital-biodiversity-heritage-library-scientific-knowledge-free-access-aoe #AI companies should fund this; it would be pennies for them... #bhl
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#BHL:
Cette fascination maladive pour l’idée d’une Amérique humiliée n’a, hélas, pas grand-chose à voir ni avec Trump ni avec ce bon et sain antitrumpisme que je pratique moi-même, ici, chaque semaine, quand je dénonce les égarements, les vulgarités ou les violences du 47e président des États-Unis.
Car, en fait, souvenons-nous.
La même jubilation existait quand Bush s’enlisait en Irak.
La même joie mauvaise salua la reculade d’Obama renonçant à frapper la Syrie et capitulant devant Assad.
La même ironie méprisante visait Biden quand il paraissait incapable d’intimider Moscou au début de la guerre d’Ukraine.
C’est toujours la même histoire.
Les présidents changent, la détestation demeure.
Ce n’est pas tel ou tel occupant de la Maison-Blanche qui est en cause, c’est l’Amérique comme puissance et idée que l’on jouit de voir vaciller, douter d’elle-même et perdre pied.
Bref, c’est le même antiaméricanisme obsessionnel, compulsif, pavlovien, dont on oublie trop souvent qu’il naquit, lui aussi, dans la France et l’Allemagne des années 1930 et qu’il préféra presque toujours les régimes autoritaires aux sociétés du vacarme, du pluralisme et de la discorde civile.
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I recently had the privilege to attend a webinar where Briana Giasullo, librarian at Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, presented to the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine. She showed her #digitisation workflow for field notebooks & creating corrected OCR files via #AI & #Zooniverse. #BHL
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在 Living Data 2025 中有一場 Wikidata 專題演講：【#Wikimedia 與生物多樣性資料：在開放知識生態系中的互惠關係】，議程中探討了 Wikimedia 各專案（#Wikipedia、 #Wikidata 、 #Commons）與全球生物多樣性基礎建設（如 #GBIF、#iNaturalist、Biodiversity Heritage Library／#BHL）之間的交會點，並強調它們在資料動員、標準化、公共參與與知識傳播上的協同作用。
此外，同時討論了 Wikimedia 的社群特性如何協助串連標本資料、文獻以及多媒體資源，朝向建立一個鏈結式(Linked)的生物多樣性知識圖譜。
該議程提供一個討論空間，希望聚焦於生物多樣性資料如何與 Wikimedia 平台連結，確保生物多樣性知識能以開放、結構化、且易於研究者、政策制定者與大眾取得的方式呈現。
議程演講已經公開歡迎至 YouTube 觀看：https://youtu.be/wXaHJ85g88A
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⭕« SOS Racisme a contribué à la fracture de la société #Française. » Propos de #Raphaël_Stainville sur #CNews, où les deux fondateurs de SOS Racisme que sont #juliendray et #BHL sont chroniqueurs et/ou invités réguliers.
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Cry harder, creep.
Speaking of "crime," that's pretty rich indignation from a guy who had €750k funneled to him from ARTE to make his personal documentary projects while he chaired its "supervisory board." (v. https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/130225/bernard-henri-levy-et-arte-le-parquet-de-paris-ouvre-une-enquete-pour-prise-illegale-d-interets)
Nobody cares what you think and nobody goes to see your useless documentaries.
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I've been testing my extremely rudimentary SPARQL skills and created this basic Wikimedia Commons query https://w.wiki/FVNE It returns all those
Biodiversity Heritage Library images with both a BHL page id and depicts statements in their structured data. #BHL #WikiCommons #PrettyPictures -
BHL : Les pressions sur Israël, on a tout fait, tout essayé...
https://loma.ml/display/373ebf56-1368-d2c7-e005-99b137230623
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生物多樣性歷史文獻圖書館（BHL，Biodiversity Heritage Library）持續深化與 Wikidata 的整合，每季定期擷取並更新資料。2025 年 8 月的更新中，BHL 新增逾五萬筆作者項目與一萬筆出版品項目，涵蓋識別碼、關聯資料與語意結構，進一步強化其資料庫的開放性與可查詢性。這項作業不僅提升 BHL 與維基生態系的互通性，也為生物多樣性研究社群提供更完整、可重用的知識網絡。
閱讀報導原文：【Biodiversity Heritage Library update, harvesting Wikidata identifiers and improving the BHL2Wiki Tool】https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/August_2025/Contents/Biodiversity_Heritage_Library_report
附圖為 BHL Meta-wiki 頁面
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#Help me, #librarians
This photo of Bone Cabin Quarry is from page 683 of:
Osborn, Henry Fairfield. 1904. Fossil wonders of the West: the dinosaurs of the Bone-Cabin Quarry, being the first of description of the greatest "find" of extinct animals ever made. Century Magazine 68(5):680-694.
I need to find a better copy for republication. Copies at the #InternetArchive and #BHL #BiodiversityLibrary are worse.
Any ideas?
(Please boost for coverage.)
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#Colonialisme : les crimes de guerre d' #israel
Des propos qui relèvent de la négation de crimes de guerre. Quand Bernard-Henri Lévy https://mastodon.social/@la_voix/113997591347832132 dépeint Israël comme un "emblème de l'anticolonialisme", un rappel des faits s'impose.
