These are some quick thoughts on the games on the BHL site, part of the Purposeful Gaming and BHL Project. As mentioned on Twitter, I had a quick play of the Beanstalk game and got bored pretty quickly.

I've just come back from a pro-iBiosphere Workshop at Leiden where the role of "legacy literature" became the subject of some discussion.

tl;dr Readmill might be a great platform for shared annotation and correction of Biodiversity Heritage Library content. Thinking about accessing the taxonomic literature I started revisiting previous ideas.

Some quick notes on possibilities for text-mining BHL (in rough order of priority). Any text-mining would have to be robust to OCR errors. I've created a group of OCR-related papers on Mendeley: Skip to content Welcome Enter your email to continue with Mendeley Email Continue Sign in via your organization About Elsevier Terms and conditions Privacy policy Help We use cookies to help provide and enhance our service.

While exploring ways to visually compare classifications I came across the Australian snake name Demansia atra , and ended up reading a series of papers in the Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature discussing the status of the name (more fun than it sounds, trust me). For example, Smith and Wallach Case 2920.

One of the challenges of linking databases of taxonomic names to the primary literature is the minimal citation style used by nomenclators (see my earlier post Nomenclators + digitised literature = fail). For example, consider Nomenclator Zoologicus.

Some quick notes on OCR. Revisiting my DjVu viewer experiments it really struck me how "dirty" the OCR text is. It's readable, but if we were to display the OCR text rather than the images, it would be a little offputting.

Stumbled across Project Xanadu, Ted Nelson's vision of the way the web should be (e.g., BACK TO THE FUTURE: Hypertext the Way It Used To Be). Nelson coined the term "transclusion", including one document in side another by reference.