University of Glasgow

Roderic Page

> Great to see [@JournalMap](https://twitter.com/JournalMap) jump from
> \~11000 to \~17000 articles: <http://t.co/bVarqDGGVU>
>
> --- Ken Mankoff (@mankoff) [September 27,
> 2014](https://twitter.com/mankoff/status/515875352573673472)

  
The recent jump from \~11000 to \~17000 articles in
[JournalMap](http://www.journalmap.org) is mostly due to JournalMap
ingesting content from my [BioStor](http://biostor.org) database.
BioStor extracts articles from the [Biodiversity Heritage
Library](http://biodiversitylibrary.org) (BHL), and in turn these get
fed back into BHL as \"parts\" (you can see these in the \"Table of
Contents\" tab when viewing a scanned volume in BHL).  
  
In addition to extracting articles, BioStor pulls out latitude and
longitude pairs mentioned in the OCR text and creates little Google Maps
for articles that have geotagged content. Working with Jason Karl
([@jwkarl](https://twitter.com/jwkarl)), JournalMap now talks to BioStor
and grabs all its geotagged articles so that you can browse them in
JournalMap. As a consequence, journals such as [*Proceedings of The
Biological Society of
Washington*](http://www.journalmap.org/search?filters%5Bpublication_id%5D=2292)
now appear on their map (this journal is third most geotagged journal in
JournalMap).  
  
As an example of what you can do in JournalMap, here\'s a screenshot
showing localities in Tanzania, and an [article from
BioStor](http://biostor.org/reference/109618) being displayed:  
  
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border="0" width="560" height="386"}  
JournalMap is an elegant interface to the biodiversity literature, and
adding BioStor as a source is a nice example of how the Biodiversity
Heritage Library\'s content is becoming more widely used. BioStor would
only be possible if BHL made its content and metadata available for easy
downloading. This is a lesson I wish other projects would learn. Instead
of focussing on building flash-looking portals, make sure (a) you have
lots of content, and (b) make it easy for developers to get that content
so they can do cool things with it. BHL does well in this regard ---
other projects, such as [BHL-Europe](http://www.bhl-europe.eu), not so
much.


The recent jump from ~11000 to ~17000 articles in JournalMap is mostly due to JournalMap ingesting content from my BioStor database.

BioStor and JournalMap: a geographic interface to articles from the Biodiversity Heritage Library

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width="128" style="float:right;"}Note to self for upcoming discussion
with [JournalMap](http://www.journalmap.org).  
  
As of Monday August 25th, [BioStor](http://biostor.org) has 106,617
articles comprising 1,484,050 BHL pages. From the full text for these
articles, I have extracted 45,452 distinct localities (i.e., geotagged
with latitude and longitude). 15,860 BHL pages in BioStor pages have at
least one geotag, these pages belong to 5,675 BioStor articles.  
  
In summary, BioStor has 5,675 full-text articles that are geotagged. The
largest number of geotags for an article is 2,421, for [Distribución
geográfica de la fauna de anfibios del
Uruguay](http://biostor.org/reference/140883)
([doi:10.5479/si.23317515.134.1](http://dx.doi.org/10.5479/si.23317515.134.1)).  
  
The SQL for the queries is
[here](https://gist.github.com/rdmpage/8c2e2b85e3242f5f773d).


Note to self for upcoming discussion with JournalMap.  As of Monday August 25th, BioStor has 106,617 articles comprising 1,484,050 BHL pages. From the full text for these articles, I have extracted 45,452 distinct localities (i.e., geotagged with latitude and longitude). 15,860 BHL pages in BioStor pages have at least one geotag, these pages belong to 5,675 BioStor articles.  In summary, BioStor has 5,675 full-text articles that are geotagged.

Messaggi di Rogue Scholar

BioStor and JournalMap: a geographic interface to articles from the Biodiversity Heritage Library

Geotagging stats for BioStor