Past+Projects

toc =Mining Biodiversity= January 2014 - December 2016 Mining Biodiversity: Enriching the Biodiversity Heritage Library with Text Mining and Social Media. Funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (for US partners) Or visit the Global Project website at Mining Biodiversity: Enriching Biodiversity Heritage with Text Mining and Social Media.

Purposeful Gaming
Purposeful Gaming and BHL: engaging the public in improving and enhancing access to digital texts. December 2013 - November 2015. Funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services

Art of Life
Art of Life: Data Mining and Crowdsourcing the Identification and Description of Natural History Illustrations from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. May 2011-April 2015. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities

Global Names Architecture: An infrastructure for unifying taxonomic databases and services for managers of biological information. June 2011 - May 2014. Funded by Advances in Biological Informatics (ABI) program of the Division of Biological Infrastructure (DBI) at the National Science Foundation (NSF)
 * Global Names Project **

Lounsbery Foundation


=More about BHL Funding= The original funding for BHL came via the Encyclopedia of Life through a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (2007-2013). Learn more about funding sources for BHL.

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