BHL Europe
Biodiversity Heritage Library Europe
Numerous European projects are focusing on digitizing literature on biodiversity, or species diversity. International access to these documents is important for science, environmental protection, and the preservation of our ecosystems.
Goals of BHL Europe
• Coordination and technical coordination of European digital libraries in the field of biodiversity
• Recommendation of best practice guidelines and standards for the establishment of digital libraries on biodiversity
• Implementation of multilingual access to data
• European contribution to the global BHL project and contribution to EUROPEANA
• Development of strategies for the long-term archiving and preservation of digital data on biodiversity
• Clarification of copyright
AIT focused on implementing multilingual access to the data in the project. Today, BHL Europe is managed by the Europeana aggregator OpenUp!.
| Funding programme | eContentplus programme |
| Time frame | 1.5.2009 – 30.4.2012 |
| Coordinator | Museum für Naturkunde – Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (DE) |
| Partners | 28 Partners from 13 European countries and the US |
| Website | BHL international Portal: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ |
| Information | Projektinfoblatt |