#biodiversityheritagelibrary — Public Fediverse posts

Happy 20th birthday #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary! 🎂🥳

This week, GBIF Executive Secretary Joe Miller is at the Natural History Museum, #London celebrating #BHLDay2026.

The public symposium celebrates the incredible collaboration of libraries, museums, herbaria and research institutions around the world to deliver open access to biodiversity knowledge. It also reviews and reflects on future opportunities for BHL to further integrate into the bioinformatics data environment. 📖

Happy 20th birthday #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary! 🎂🥳

This week, GBIF Executive Secretary Joe Miller is at the Natural History Museum, #London celebrating #BHLDay2026.

The public symposium celebrates the incredible collaboration of libraries, museums, herbaria and research institutions around the world to deliver open access to biodiversity knowledge. It also reviews and reflects on future opportunities for BHL to further integrate into the bioinformatics data environment. 📖

Happy 20th birthday #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary! 🎂🥳

This week, GBIF Executive Secretary Joe Miller is at the Natural History Museum, #London celebrating #BHLDay2026.

The public symposium celebrates the incredible collaboration of libraries, museums, herbaria and research institutions around the world to deliver open access to biodiversity knowledge. It also reviews and reflects on future opportunities for BHL to further integrate into the bioinformatics data environment. 📖

Happy 20th birthday #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary! 🎂🥳

This week, GBIF Executive Secretary Joe Miller is at the Natural History Museum, #London celebrating #BHLDay2026.

The public symposium celebrates the incredible collaboration of libraries, museums, herbaria and research institutions around the world to deliver open access to biodiversity knowledge. It also reviews and reflects on future opportunities for BHL to further integrate into the bioinformatics data environment. 📖

Happy 20th birthday #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary! 🎂🥳

This week, GBIF Executive Secretary Joe Miller is at the Natural History Museum, #London celebrating #BHLDay2026.

The public symposium celebrates the incredible collaboration of libraries, museums, herbaria and research institutions around the world to deliver open access to biodiversity knowledge. It also reviews and reflects on future opportunities for BHL to further integrate into the bioinformatics data environment. 📖

The #LivingData2025 conference is starting in a few hours. I'm attending virtually and will be presenting on a very simple workflow for extracting #biodiversity data from the #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary My presentation has been prerecorded and can be seen here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySyiwfIi_Wc&pp #Wikidata

The #LivingData2025 conference is starting in a few hours. I'm attending virtually and will be presenting on a very simple workflow for extracting #biodiversity data from the #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary My presentation has been prerecorded and can be seen here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySyiwfIi_Wc&pp #Wikidata

The #LivingData2025 conference is starting in a few hours. I'm attending virtually and will be presenting on a very simple workflow for extracting #biodiversity data from the #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary My presentation has been prerecorded and can be seen here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySyiwfIi_Wc&pp #Wikidata

The #LivingData2025 conference is starting in a few hours. I'm attending virtually and will be presenting on a very simple workflow for extracting #biodiversity data from the #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary My presentation has been prerecorded and can be seen here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySyiwfIi_Wc&pp #Wikidata

The #LivingData2025 conference is starting in a few hours. I'm attending virtually and will be presenting on a very simple workflow for extracting #biodiversity data from the #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary My presentation has been prerecorded and can be seen here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySyiwfIi_Wc&pp #Wikidata

Piseinotecus

The other day I stumbled upon this passage in the Wikipedia page of Piseinotecus, a genus of beautiful nudibranch sea slugs:

The name Piseinotecus comes from the Portuguese sentence “pisei no Teco” (I stepped onto Teco). Teco was the name of a dog of the zoologists Ernst Marcus and Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus. While they were looking for a name for the genus, their friend, the zoologist Diva Diniz Corrêa, was visiting them and stated the sentence while coming down the stairs to announce that she had accidentally stepped onto their dog.

From the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piseinotecus

What a delightful story! Ernst, Eveline, and Diva were brilliant zoologists and contributed immensely to our knowledge of marine invertebrates.

The source is a short paper of recollections written by Eveline:

Piseinotecus is an entire sentence in Portuguese. Our friend, Diva, stated it while coming down the stairs one day. She had stepped upon our dog, Teco, and while we were looking for a new generic name, had told us Pisei (in Portuguese) = I stepped; no = onto; Tecus = the dog’s name. In the meantime, this genus has turned out to be the type of a new family. Piseinotecidae appears in the literature today.

See it here: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45940346#page/459/mode/1up

Marcus, E. d. B.-R. (1987). Selected Recollections from My Life. American Malacological Bulletin, 5, 183–184. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/143207

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URL: https://brunovellutini.com/posts/piseinotecus/

#bibliography #biodiversity #biodiversityHeritageLibrary #invertebrate #marineBiology #mollusca

Piseinotecus

Created Saturday 20 September 2025

The other day I stumbled upon this passage in the Wikipedia page of Piseinotecus, a genus of beautiful nudibranch sea slugs:

The name Piseinotecus comes from the Portuguese sentence “pisei no Teco” (I stepped onto Teco). Teco was the name of a dog of the zoologists Ernst Marcus and Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus. While they were looking for a name for the genus, their friend, the zoologist Diva Diniz Corrêa, was visiting them and stated the sentence while coming down the stairs to announce that she had accidentally stepped onto their dog.

From the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piseinotecus

What a delightful story! Ernst, Eveline, and Diva were brilliant zoologists and contributed immensely to our knowledge of marine invertebrates.

The source is a short paper of recollections written by Eveline:

Piseinotecus is an entire sentence in Portuguese. Our friend, Diva, stated it while coming down the stairs one day. She had stepped upon our dog, Teco, and while we were looking for a new generic name, had told us Pisei (in Portuguese) = I stepped; no = onto; Tecus = the dog’s name. In the meantime, this genus has turned out to be the type of a new family. Piseinotecidae appears in the literature today.

See it here: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45940346#page/459/mode/1up

Marcus, E. d. B.-R. (1987). Selected Recollections from My Life. American Malacological Bulletin, 5, 183–184. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/143207

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URL: https://brunovellutini.com/posts/piseinotecus/

#bibliography #biodiversity #biodiversityHeritageLibrary #invertebrate #marineBiology #mollusca

Piseinotecus

Created Saturday 20 September 2025

The other day I stumbled upon this passage in the Wikipedia page of Piseinotecus, a genus of beautiful nudibranch sea slugs:

The name Piseinotecus comes from the Portuguese sentence “pisei no Teco” (I stepped onto Teco). Teco was the name of a dog of the zoologists Ernst Marcus and Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus. While they were looking for a name for the genus, their friend, the zoologist Diva Diniz Corrêa, was visiting them and stated the sentence while coming down the stairs to announce that she had accidentally stepped onto their dog.

From the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piseinotecus

What a delightful story! Ernst, Eveline, and Diva were brilliant zoologists and contributed immensely to our knowledge of marine invertebrates.

The source is a short paper of recollections written by Eveline:

Piseinotecus is an entire sentence in Portuguese. Our friend, Diva, stated it while coming down the stairs one day. She had stepped upon our dog, Teco, and while we were looking for a new generic name, had told us Pisei (in Portuguese) = I stepped; no = onto; Tecus = the dog’s name. In the meantime, this genus has turned out to be the type of a new family. Piseinotecidae appears in the literature today.

See it here: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45940346#page/459/mode/1up

Marcus, E. d. B.-R. (1987). Selected Recollections from My Life. American Malacological Bulletin, 5, 183–184. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/143207

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URL: https://brunovellutini.com/posts/piseinotecus/

#bibliography #biodiversity #biodiversityHeritageLibrary #invertebrate #marineBiology #mollusca

Piseinotecus

Created Saturday 20 September 2025

The other day I stumbled upon this passage in the Wikipedia page of Piseinotecus, a genus of beautiful nudibranch sea slugs:

The name Piseinotecus comes from the Portuguese sentence “pisei no Teco” (I stepped onto Teco). Teco was the name of a dog of the zoologists Ernst Marcus and Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus. While they were looking for a name for the genus, their friend, the zoologist Diva Diniz Corrêa, was visiting them and stated the sentence while coming down the stairs to announce that she had accidentally stepped onto their dog.

From the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piseinotecus

What a delightful story! Ernst, Eveline, and Diva were brilliant zoologists and contributed immensely to our knowledge of marine invertebrates.

The source is a short paper of recollections written by Eveline:

Piseinotecus is an entire sentence in Portuguese. Our friend, Diva, stated it while coming down the stairs one day. She had stepped upon our dog, Teco, and while we were looking for a new generic name, had told us Pisei (in Portuguese) = I stepped; no = onto; Tecus = the dog’s name. In the meantime, this genus has turned out to be the type of a new family. Piseinotecidae appears in the literature today.

See it here: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45940346#page/459/mode/1up

Marcus, E. d. B.-R. (1987). Selected Recollections from My Life. American Malacological Bulletin, 5, 183–184. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/143207

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URL: https://brunovellutini.com/posts/piseinotecus/

#bibliography #biodiversity #biodiversityHeritageLibrary #invertebrate #marineBiology #mollusca

Piseinotecus

Created Saturday 20 September 2025

The other day I stumbled upon this passage in the Wikipedia page of Piseinotecus, a genus of beautiful nudibranch sea slugs:

The name Piseinotecus comes from the Portuguese sentence “pisei no Teco” (I stepped onto Teco). Teco was the name of a dog of the zoologists Ernst Marcus and Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus. While they were looking for a name for the genus, their friend, the zoologist Diva Diniz Corrêa, was visiting them and stated the sentence while coming down the stairs to announce that she had accidentally stepped onto their dog.

From the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piseinotecus

What a delightful story! Ernst, Eveline, and Diva were brilliant zoologists and contributed immensely to our knowledge of marine invertebrates.

The source is a short paper of recollections written by Eveline:

Piseinotecus is an entire sentence in Portuguese. Our friend, Diva, stated it while coming down the stairs one day. She had stepped upon our dog, Teco, and while we were looking for a new generic name, had told us Pisei (in Portuguese) = I stepped; no = onto; Tecus = the dog’s name. In the meantime, this genus has turned out to be the type of a new family. Piseinotecidae appears in the literature today.

See it here: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45940346#page/459/mode/1up

Marcus, E. d. B.-R. (1987). Selected Recollections from My Life. American Malacological Bulletin, 5, 183–184. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/143207

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URL: https://brunovellutini.com/posts/piseinotecus/

#bibliography #biodiversity #biodiversityHeritageLibrary #invertebrate #marineBiology #mollusca

BHL Image Explorer

This is a wonderful project mashing images from the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) with data from Wikidata and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).

BHL Image Explorer: https://bhl-gallery.toolforge.org/

It enables us to explore the figure plates present in BHL’s catalog (also on Flickr and Wikimedia Commons), links with other databases, and keeps track of their use in Wikipedia pages. It’s a nice way to expose these images and encourage their use on Wikipedia.

The project was created by Tiago Lubiana who was BHL’s Wikimedian-in-Residence during last semester. He finished his term a couple of months ago are wrote some closing thoughts in BHL’s blog. I enjoyed the quote below.

In an age of cheap, AI-generated illustrations, there is something grand in seeing these human-made pieces of scientific art, tales of the biodiversity-loving nature of humankind across the centuries.

Seeds for the Future: Closing Thoughts from BHL’s Wikimedian-in-Residence at https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/07/seeds-for-future-closing-thoughts-from-bhls-wikimedian-in-residence.html

Via Siobhan Leachman.

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URL: https://brunovellutini.com/posts/bhl-image-explorer/

#bibliography #biodiversity #biodiversityHeritageLibrary #image

BHL Image Explorer

Created Saturday 13 September 2025

This is a wonderful project mashing images from the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) with data from Wikidata and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).

BHL Image Explorer: https://bhl-gallery.toolforge.org/

It enables us to explore the figure plates present in BHL’s catalog (also on Flickr and Wikimedia Commons), links with other databases, and keeps track of their use in Wikipedia pages. It’s a nice way to expose these images and encourage their use on Wikipedia.

The project was created by Tiago Lubiana who was BHL’s Wikimedian-in-Residence during last semester. He finished his term a couple of months ago are wrote some closing thoughts in BHL’s blog. I enjoyed the quote below.

In an age of cheap, AI-generated illustrations, there is something grand in seeing these human-made pieces of scientific art, tales of the biodiversity-loving nature of humankind across the centuries.

Seeds for the Future: Closing Thoughts from BHL’s Wikimedian-in-Residence at https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/07/seeds-for-future-closing-thoughts-from-bhls-wikimedian-in-residence.html

Via Siobhan Leachman.

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URL: https://brunovellutini.com/posts/bhl-image-explorer/

#bibliography #biodiversity #biodiversityHeritageLibrary #image

BHL Image Explorer

Created Saturday 13 September 2025

This is a wonderful project mashing images from the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) with data from Wikidata and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).

BHL Image Explorer: https://bhl-gallery.toolforge.org/

It enables us to explore the figure plates present in BHL’s catalog (also on Flickr and Wikimedia Commons), links with other databases, and keeps track of their use in Wikipedia pages. It’s a nice way to expose these images and encourage their use on Wikipedia.

The project was created by Tiago Lubiana who was BHL’s Wikimedian-in-Residence during last semester. He finished his term a couple of months ago are wrote some closing thoughts in BHL’s blog. I enjoyed the quote below.

In an age of cheap, AI-generated illustrations, there is something grand in seeing these human-made pieces of scientific art, tales of the biodiversity-loving nature of humankind across the centuries.

Seeds for the Future: Closing Thoughts from BHL’s Wikimedian-in-Residence at https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/07/seeds-for-future-closing-thoughts-from-bhls-wikimedian-in-residence.html

Via Siobhan Leachman.

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URL: https://brunovellutini.com/posts/bhl-image-explorer/

#bibliography #biodiversity #biodiversityHeritageLibrary #image

BHL Image Explorer

Created Saturday 13 September 2025

This is a wonderful project mashing images from the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) with data from Wikidata and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).

BHL Image Explorer: https://bhl-gallery.toolforge.org/

It enables us to explore the figure plates present in BHL’s catalog (also on Flickr and Wikimedia Commons), links with other databases, and keeps track of their use in Wikipedia pages. It’s a nice way to expose these images and encourage their use on Wikipedia.

The project was created by Tiago Lubiana who was BHL’s Wikimedian-in-Residence during last semester. He finished his term a couple of months ago are wrote some closing thoughts in BHL’s blog. I enjoyed the quote below.

In an age of cheap, AI-generated illustrations, there is something grand in seeing these human-made pieces of scientific art, tales of the biodiversity-loving nature of humankind across the centuries.

Seeds for the Future: Closing Thoughts from BHL’s Wikimedian-in-Residence at https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/07/seeds-for-future-closing-thoughts-from-bhls-wikimedian-in-residence.html

Via Siobhan Leachman.

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URL: https://brunovellutini.com/posts/bhl-image-explorer/

#bibliography #biodiversity #biodiversityHeritageLibrary #image

BHL Image Explorer

Created Saturday 13 September 2025

This is a wonderful project mashing images from the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) with data from Wikidata and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).

BHL Image Explorer: https://bhl-gallery.toolforge.org/

It enables us to explore the figure plates present in BHL’s catalog (also on Flickr and Wikimedia Commons), links with other databases, and keeps track of their use in Wikipedia pages. It’s a nice way to expose these images and encourage their use on Wikipedia.

The project was created by Tiago Lubiana who was BHL’s Wikimedian-in-Residence during last semester. He finished his term a couple of months ago are wrote some closing thoughts in BHL’s blog. I enjoyed the quote below.

In an age of cheap, AI-generated illustrations, there is something grand in seeing these human-made pieces of scientific art, tales of the biodiversity-loving nature of humankind across the centuries.

Seeds for the Future: Closing Thoughts from BHL’s Wikimedian-in-Residence at https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/07/seeds-for-future-closing-thoughts-from-bhls-wikimedian-in-residence.html

Via Siobhan Leachman.

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URL: https://brunovellutini.com/posts/bhl-image-explorer/

#bibliography #biodiversity #biodiversityHeritageLibrary #image

@ehasbrouck @Yuvalne

Thanks again. The URL-per-page is a technical aspect (one that I rely on daily for managing references to materials in the #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary - part of IA, but separate from the OpenLibrary). The issues at question are the channels by which books become scanned copies, the proportions of such texts that can be accessed by users, and whether IA is operating properly as a library in what its doing for the still-encumbered works.

I do understand your concern and won't try to argue you into seeing IA as a positive, although I am confident it is one of the most important efforts we have for ensuring the preservation of human knowledge and culture in increasingly dark times. I do believe that the NWU page weakens its case by repeatedly insinuating bad faith (e.g. in the comments following the take-down of the freelance writers' guide).

@ehasbrouck @Yuvalne

Thanks again. The URL-per-page is a technical aspect (one that I rely on daily for managing references to materials in the #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary - part of IA, but separate from the OpenLibrary). The issues at question are the channels by which books become scanned copies, the proportions of such texts that can be accessed by users, and whether IA is operating properly as a library in what its doing for the still-encumbered works.

I do understand your concern and won't try to argue you into seeing IA as a positive, although I am confident it is one of the most important efforts we have for ensuring the preservation of human knowledge and culture in increasingly dark times. I do believe that the NWU page weakens its case by repeatedly insinuating bad faith (e.g. in the comments following the take-down of the freelance writers' guide).

@ehasbrouck @Yuvalne

Thanks again. The URL-per-page is a technical aspect (one that I rely on daily for managing references to materials in the #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary - part of IA, but separate from the OpenLibrary). The issues at question are the channels by which books become scanned copies, the proportions of such texts that can be accessed by users, and whether IA is operating properly as a library in what its doing for the still-encumbered works.

I do understand your concern and won't try to argue you into seeing IA as a positive, although I am confident it is one of the most important efforts we have for ensuring the preservation of human knowledge and culture in increasingly dark times. I do believe that the NWU page weakens its case by repeatedly insinuating bad faith (e.g. in the comments following the take-down of the freelance writers' guide).

@ehasbrouck @Yuvalne

Thanks again. The URL-per-page is a technical aspect (one that I rely on daily for managing references to materials in the #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary - part of IA, but separate from the OpenLibrary). The issues at question are the channels by which books become scanned copies, the proportions of such texts that can be accessed by users, and whether IA is operating properly as a library in what its doing for the still-encumbered works.

I do understand your concern and won't try to argue you into seeing IA as a positive, although I am confident it is one of the most important efforts we have for ensuring the preservation of human knowledge and culture in increasingly dark times. I do believe that the NWU page weakens its case by repeatedly insinuating bad faith (e.g. in the comments following the take-down of the freelance writers' guide).

@ehasbrouck @Yuvalne

Thanks again. The URL-per-page is a technical aspect (one that I rely on daily for managing references to materials in the #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary - part of IA, but separate from the OpenLibrary). The issues at question are the channels by which books become scanned copies, the proportions of such texts that can be accessed by users, and whether IA is operating properly as a library in what its doing for the still-encumbered works.

I do understand your concern and won't try to argue you into seeing IA as a positive, although I am confident it is one of the most important efforts we have for ensuring the preservation of human knowledge and culture in increasingly dark times. I do believe that the NWU page weakens its case by repeatedly insinuating bad faith (e.g. in the comments following the take-down of the freelance writers' guide).

Imported these digitally whitened hand-colored lithographs from and 1860 book - and also put together a biography of the author

#Wikipedia #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerardus_Frederik_Westerman

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:De_toerako%27s

#BiodiversityHeritageLibrary has issued a call for support from organisations able to help with hosting, development and management.

https://about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-support/

#BiodiversityHeritageLibrary has issued a call for support from organisations able to help with hosting, development and management.

https://about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-support/

#BiodiversityHeritageLibrary has issued a call for support from organisations able to help with hosting, development and management.

https://about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-support/

#BiodiversityHeritageLibrary has issued a call for support from organisations able to help with hosting, development and management.

https://about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-support/

#BiodiversityHeritageLibrary has issued a call for support from organisations able to help with hosting, development and management.

https://about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-support/

Here is an update from the #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary on how they are responding to the coming end of their relationship with the #Smithsonian.

https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/05/transition-update-1.html

#BHL is a critical resource for #biodiversity #research and #taxonomy. It needs to be preserved.

Here is an update from the #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary on how they are responding to the coming end of their relationship with the #Smithsonian.

https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/05/transition-update-1.html

#BHL is a critical resource for #biodiversity #research and #taxonomy. It needs to be preserved.

Here is an update from the #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary on how they are responding to the coming end of their relationship with the #Smithsonian.

https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/05/transition-update-1.html

#BHL is a critical resource for #biodiversity #research and #taxonomy. It needs to be preserved.

Here is an update from the #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary on how they are responding to the coming end of their relationship with the #Smithsonian.

https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/05/transition-update-1.html

#BHL is a critical resource for #biodiversity #research and #taxonomy. It needs to be preserved.

Here is an update from the #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary on how they are responding to the coming end of their relationship with the #Smithsonian.

https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/05/transition-update-1.html

#BHL is a critical resource for #biodiversity #research and #taxonomy. It needs to be preserved.

A New Future for the #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary
https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/04/new-future-for-bhl.html

A New Future for the #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary
https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/04/new-future-for-bhl.html

A New Future for the #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary
https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/04/new-future-for-bhl.html

A New Future for the #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary
https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/04/new-future-for-bhl.html

Clearly expected given all that is happening, but the #Smithsonian will soon no longer be able to host the #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary, and it is in need of (a) new home(s):

https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/04/new-future-for-bhl.html

#BHL is a treasure and ensuring its preservation is of the greatest importance for #biodiversity research and #taxonomy.

As the news item indicates, this may also be an opportunity to imagine better ways to make these critical publications more accessible to the community.

#ILoveBHL

Clearly expected given all that is happening, but the #Smithsonian will soon no longer be able to host the #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary, and it is in need of (a) new home(s):

https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/04/new-future-for-bhl.html

#BHL is a treasure and ensuring its preservation is of the greatest importance for #biodiversity research and #taxonomy.

As the news item indicates, this may also be an opportunity to imagine better ways to make these critical publications more accessible to the community.

#ILoveBHL

Clearly expected given all that is happening, but the #Smithsonian will soon no longer be able to host the #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary, and it is in need of (a) new home(s):

https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/04/new-future-for-bhl.html

#BHL is a treasure and ensuring its preservation is of the greatest importance for #biodiversity research and #taxonomy.

As the news item indicates, this may also be an opportunity to imagine better ways to make these critical publications more accessible to the community.

#ILoveBHL

Clearly expected given all that is happening, but the #Smithsonian will soon no longer be able to host the #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary, and it is in need of (a) new home(s):

https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/04/new-future-for-bhl.html

#BHL is a treasure and ensuring its preservation is of the greatest importance for #biodiversity research and #taxonomy.

As the news item indicates, this may also be an opportunity to imagine better ways to make these critical publications more accessible to the community.

#ILoveBHL

Clearly expected given all that is happening, but the #Smithsonian will soon no longer be able to host the #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary, and it is in need of (a) new home(s):

https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/04/new-future-for-bhl.html

#BHL is a treasure and ensuring its preservation is of the greatest importance for #biodiversity research and #taxonomy.

As the news item indicates, this may also be an opportunity to imagine better ways to make these critical publications more accessible to the community.

#ILoveBHL

A press release is out about the Biodiversity Heritage Library. From 1 January 2026 the Smithsonian will no longer host the administrative functions of BHL. BHL is looking for a new home. For further information see https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/04/new-future-for-bhl.html
I admit to being very concerned given how vital BHL is to the biodiversity knowledge infrastructure. I hold hope that a hero institution or group of institutions ride to the rescue.
#ILoveBHL #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary

A press release is out about the Biodiversity Heritage Library. From 1 January 2026 the Smithsonian will no longer host the administrative functions of BHL. BHL is looking for a new home. For further information see https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/04/new-future-for-bhl.html
I admit to being very concerned given how vital BHL is to the biodiversity knowledge infrastructure. I hold hope that a hero institution or group of institutions ride to the rescue.
#ILoveBHL #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary

A press release is out about the Biodiversity Heritage Library. From 1 January 2026 the Smithsonian will no longer host the administrative functions of BHL. BHL is looking for a new home. For further information see https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/04/new-future-for-bhl.html
I admit to being very concerned given how vital BHL is to the biodiversity knowledge infrastructure. I hold hope that a hero institution or group of institutions ride to the rescue.
#ILoveBHL #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary

A press release is out about the Biodiversity Heritage Library. From 1 January 2026 the Smithsonian will no longer host the administrative functions of BHL. BHL is looking for a new home. For further information see https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/04/new-future-for-bhl.html
I admit to being very concerned given how vital BHL is to the biodiversity knowledge infrastructure. I hold hope that a hero institution or group of institutions ride to the rescue.
#ILoveBHL #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary

A press release is out about the Biodiversity Heritage Library. From 1 January 2026 the Smithsonian will no longer host the administrative functions of BHL. BHL is looking for a new home. For further information see https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/04/new-future-for-bhl.html
I admit to being very concerned given how vital BHL is to the biodiversity knowledge infrastructure. I hold hope that a hero institution or group of institutions ride to the rescue.
#ILoveBHL #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary