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DISCOVERING AFRICAN BIODIVERSITY LITERATURE COLLECTIONS Anne-Lise Fourie (SANBI, South Africa), Lucy Waruingi (African Conservation Centre, Kenya) Presented at TDWG 2013 Conference Florence, ITALY FIELD MUSEUM, CHICAGO NOVEMBER 2011 9

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DISCOVERING AFRICAN BIODIVERSITY LITERATURE COLLECTIONS

Anne-Lise Fourie (SANBI, South Africa), Lucy Waruingi (African Conservation Centre, Kenya) Presented at TDWG 2013 Conference Florence, ITALY

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FIELD MUSEUM, CHICAGO NOVEMBER 2011

9 Invitees
BHL Life & Literature

Conference

1 day workshop
Concept of BHL Africa

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KIRSTENBOSCH, CAPE TOWN JUNE 2012

BIM forum
2 day workshop
Established BHLA
Tasked to plan launch

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PRETORIA APRIL 15-17, 2013 BHL AFRICA Launched!

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To create a global access point and make

available the legacy of African Biodiversity Heritage Information

VISION

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MISSION

To establish a

consortium of institutes

To make that

information available for open access and responsible use

To include digitally

created material in public domain

To include as many as

possible images

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KEY VALUES OF BHLA

Open access
Collaboration
Interoperability
Transparency

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Regions of BHLA

Northern Africa
Western Africa
Central Africa
Eastern Africa
Southern Africa

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Up to date we have 34 signed MoU’s.
Training workshop planned to coincide with TWDG in Kenya,

2014

Drafting a preliminary communication and outreach plan
University of Pretoria will be receiving 3 machines from

Internet Archives

Macaw tool developed by Joel Richard at the Smithsonian

Libraries, which is used to ingest books through Internet Archive into BHL. A remote installation of Macaw is running at the University of Pretoria and can be access via the web by any BHL-Africa participant

ACHIEVEMENTS TO DATE

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Identifying institutes not represented in BHLA
Identifying unique collections
Training and developing digitization as a core skill
Identifying resource sharing possibilities
Developing technical tools specifically for Africa
Educating users of BHLA
Funding

CHALLENGES

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WAY FORWARD

Identify and engage with relevant institutes
Create awareness of BHLA
Support to and improve access to collections
Identify collaborations and share of expertise
Identify training and technical needs

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BHLA Steering Committee

Anne-Lise Fourie, SA (SANBI, Southern) and Chair
Ria Groenewald, SA (University of Pretoria);
Ashah Owano , Kenya (National Museums of Kenya);
Loi Namugenyi , Uganda (Uganda National Council

for Science and Technology)

Lawrence Monda, Kenya (NMK)- BHL Africa