through existing Collaborations, platforms, and
open source tools
Jorrit Poelen (UC Santa Barbara Cheadle Center,
Ronin Institute)
Aja C. Sherman (Bat Eco-Interactions Project)
Anna Willoughby (University of Georgia, Athens, GA,
US)
Donat Agosti (Plazi)
Nancy B. Simmons (American Museum of Natural
History)
Nathan S. Upham (Arizona State University)
Cullen Geiselman (Bat Eco-Interactions Project)
2024-10-25
Guiding Questions
How do
you access/reuse literature collection?
How do
you organize your literature collection?
How do you
share your literature collection?
Andersen, 1912: An Influential Bat Work
Andersen, K.C. 1912. Catalogue of the Chiroptera in the collection of
the British Museum. Volume I: Megachiroptera. British Museum (Natural
History), British Museum Catalogue, 854
pp. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/91323.
Finding Andersen, 1912
Internet Archive Down Banner on
Biodiversity Heritage Library. Accessed at
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/91323 on
2024-10-16.
Finding Andersen, 1912
Andersen 1912 as seen at
https://biostor.org/reference/126601 on 2024-10-22.
Finding Andersen, 1912
Like this?
AMNH Department of Mammalogy Library.
2024-10-03. Photo by Nancy Simmons
Finding Anderson, 1912
Or, like this?
Bat Papers on Cullen’s Desk. 2024-10-03.
Photo by Cullen Geiselman
Finding Anderson, 1912
Or perhaps like this?
Pile of Paper in Nancy’s Office.
2024-10-03. Photo By Nancy Simmons
Finding Anderson, 1912
Members only Zotero record in the Bat
Literature Project as accessed at
https://www.zotero.org/groups/5435545/bat_literature_project/items/P825HKF3
on 2024-10-22
Finding Andersen, 1912
Digital Copy of Andersen 1912 as seen at
https://zenodo.org/records/13517334 on 2024-10-22
Finding Andersen, 1912
Identifiers associated with Digital Copy
of Anderson 1912 as seen at https://zenodo.org/records/13517334 on
2024-10-22
Finding Anderson, 1912
So, some webpage
… at https://zenodo.org/records/13517334 …
… as accessed on 2024-10-22
… claims that Anderson, 1912
… is associated with a digital fingerprint
… <hash://md5/56384a6778e2c67bbd8ebe4d63f770cf>
… that uniquely identifies a “physical” digital copy
… of the seminal Andersen, 1912 work.
Found Andersen, 1912 at 30,000 ft
(screenshot made of Jorrit’s laptop screen at 30,000 ft on UA6135 IAH
to GDL on 2024-10-22 using: Sherman, A.C. et al 2024. BatLit.org v0.6
hash://md5/db73e659e8cf16ef50e82bb5e72ae97b)
Found Andersen, 1912!
Note to self: next time, add a digital content
fingerprint to identify the exact digital copy of
Anderson, 1912 you’d like to reference.
Citing Andersen, 1912 pre-Internet
Andersen, K.C. 1912. Catalogue of the Chiroptera in the collection of
the British Museum. Volume I: Megachiroptera. British Museum (Natural
History), British Museum Catalogue, 854 pp.
Citing Andersen, 1912 in the Age of the Internet
(with internet locations)
Andersen, K.C. 1912. Catalogue of the Chiroptera in the collection of
the British Museum. Volume I: Megachiroptera. British Museum (Natural
History), British Museum Catalogue, 854
pp. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/91323https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.8322
Citing Andersen, 1912: Beyond the Internet
(with internet locations and non-internet identifiers)
Andersen, K.C. 1912. Catalogue of the Chiroptera in the collection of
the British Museum. Volume I: Megachiroptera. British Museum (Natural
History), British Museum Catalogue, 854
pp. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/91323
https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.8322
hash://md5/56384a6778e2c67bbd8ebe4d63f770cf1
How Was Jorrit Able to Access This Paper at 30,000 ft?
Jorrit bought a 128GB SD Card for ~$25
USD at the Target on 2500 E Lake St, Minneapolis, Minnesota before NASBR
2024
How Was Jorrit Able to Access This Paper at 30,000 ft?
Jorrit copying BatLit v0.6
hash://md5/db73e659e8cf16ef50e82bb5e72ae97b on 2024-10-21
How Was Jorrit Able to Access This Paper at 30,000 ft?
SD Card carrying > 400k pages of bat
literature contained in BatLit v0.6
hash://md5/db73e659e8cf16ef50e82bb5e72ae97b on 2024-10-21
Wishing you had 20k bat papers at your fingertips?
Cecilia Montauban catching bats in Ghana
while writing a Bat Conservation International student scholarship
application Ghana in October 2021
BatLit Bits and Pieces
Zotero is used for managing a collection
of literature references. Versioned snapshots of this collection are
securely packaged in a BatLit version. This version is then mobilized
using a website, the Zenodo batlit community, and on offline storage
media.
BatLit Versions
version
date
size
# pages
# references
fingerprint
v0.6
2024-09-19
44.7GiB
427,105
19,038
v0.5
2024-08-16
50.9 GiB
20,145
…
…
…
…
…
v0.1
2024-04-26
7.9 GiB
2,929
How Was Jorrit Able to Access Andersen, 1912?
Through Work of CETAF/GBatNet Eco-Interactions working group
activities spanning 4.5 years in which:
goals were identified
(G1) make bat interaction data digitally accessible,
(G2) align bat taxonomic names to uncover their meaning, and
(G3) provide open-access to bat literature.
Plazi provided a legal framework via their Biodiversity Literature
Repository 2.
Jorrit reused open source software 4 to
track, package and version bat literature metadata and their pdfs.
Researchers like you shared their literature collections.
Next Steps
Further
develop governance model to help sustain BatLit.
Improve
BatLit depth, mobility, and access for the benefit of the bat research
community.
Use
BatLit as a digital foundation for associated projects.
Want to know more?
Visit https://batlit.org, or chat/reach out to members of the GBatNet
Eco-Interactions working group (in no particular order):
Aja Sherman, Nancy Simmons, DeeAnn Reeder, Nathan Upham, Cullen
Geiselman, Cecilia Montauban, Hernani Oliveira, Ariadna Morales, Jelle
Zijlstra, Quentin Groom, Donat Agosti, Kendra Phelps, Anna Willoughby,
or Jorrit Poelen.
Thank you / Acknowledgments
BatLit
would not have been possible without the tremendous amount of work done
by you, your fellow bat researchers, and those that proceeded us.
Guiding Questions
How do
you access/reuse literature collection?
How do
you organize your literature collection?
How do
you share your literature collection?
Extra
BatLit Workflow
BatLit Workflow
BatLit Workflow Steps
Curator Adds Digital Copy to BatLit Project on Zotero 5
Periodically, Archivist takes a snapshot of all Zotero records in
BatLit, including bibliographic metadata and the “physical” digital copy
(pdf).
Archivist puts the snapshots in a signed digital archive (box) and
signs the provenance logs
Signed Digital Archive (or a batlit corpus version) is mobilized by
translating and upload them to Zenodo, GitHub Pages, and various other
network attached storage media
Signed Digital Archives is stored on offline enabled media (sd card,
external hard disk)
Corpus is transmitted and discovered by students researchers
Corpus is reused by students and researchers, enabling both manual
(e.g., reading, annotation) and automated (e.g., raw material for
language model training) workflows
Reuse promotes improvement and further awareness
Accessing content associated with DOIs
Take 2.
turn on the internet (still there?)
open a web browser
load https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.8322
and rely on a delicate and complex socio-technical network
inspect page
use mouse to click on a link that looks like a bug picture
download image and trust its authenticity
DOI Economics and Redirection
DOI Redirection Sequence
Diagram
Internet Is Designed For Exchanging Information
The internet is a powerful tool for exchanging digital information.
But the Internet’s contents changes constantly: websites are launched
and taken down, webpages change, and content gets archived or lost.6
Internet Is Location-based
By design, a web address, or Uniform Resource Locator (URL), points
to a specific internet location from which a resource, like a webpage,
can be retrieved. However, a URL does not provide a way to verify that a
retrieved webpage was the one we asked for. 7
Finding Content By Their Location Is … Tricky
Imagine using a URL-like reference to find a book at a library:
instead of locating a book by what it is (e.g., title, author), you
refer to a book by its location (e.g., third shelf on the second row
next to the window). With this, a book becomes unfindable if moved to
another shelf. And, if you do manage to find a book at the referenced
location, how would you know you’ve found the book you are looking for?
8
Finding Content By Their (Summarized) Content Is … What Librarians
Do
Instead of pointing to where books are located, librarians point to
them using a bibliographic reference. For practical reasons, only a few
identifying clues are included in such a reference (e.g., author, year
of publication, title, and publisher). So, librarians refer to
content by what it is, and knowing where it may be located is
secondary.9
