2024
2024 Association of Research Libraries Spring Meeting
Martin R. Kalfatovic is the Associate Director, Digital Initiatives and Scholarly Communications at Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (SLA). He also serves as Program Director of the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). At SLA he is involved with scholarly communications, mass digitization, and research analytics and metadata. As the Program Director for the BHL, a global consortium of forty-two natural history, research, and botanical garden libraries (including five ARL members), he participates in the national and global coordination around issues of collection aggregation, technical development, and research applications of the digital library. A regular contributor to popular and scholarly publications. He can be found on select social platforms as @udcmrk and has an inordinate fondness for dodos.
2024 Elizabeth Stone Lecture. The Catholic University of America
Martin R. Kalfatovic is the Associate Director for Digital Initiatives and Scholarly Communications and Program Director of the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) at Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (SLA). At SLA, he is involved with scholarly communications, mass digitization, and research analytics and metadata. As the Program Director for the BHL, a global consortium of forty-two natural history, research, and botanical garden libraries, he participates in the national and global coordination around issues of collection aggregation, technical development, and research applications of the digital library. A regular contributor to popular and scholarly publications, Mr. Kalfatovic holds both a BA and MSLS from The Catholic University of America and received the Raymond Von Dran Memorial Award for innovation, collaboration, and leadership in 2013. He can be found on select social platforms as @udcmrk and has an inordinate fondness for dodos.
2020
2020 Plant Humanities Summer ProgramMartin R. Kalfatovic is the Associate Director, Digital Programs and Initiatives at Smithsonian Libraries and Program Director of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. At Smithsonian Libraries, he is involved with scholarly communications, mass digitization, education and outreach, and product development and licensing. As the Program Director for the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), a consortium of sixteen natural history, research, and botanical garden libraries, he participates in the global coordination of the BHL project working with BHL partners in China, Brazil, Australia, the European Union, Egypt, Singapore, Mexico, and Africa. A regular contributor to popular and scholarly publications. He can be found on Twitter @udcmrk and has an inordinate fondness for dodos.
Talk: A Global Open Access Resource: An Introduction to the Biodiversity Heritage Library
Abstract: This presentation will cover a bit of the history and governance of the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). The BHL is an open access digital library for biodiversity literature. Operating as a consortium of natural history and botanical institutions and headquartered at the Smithsonian Libraries, the BHL collections contain nearly 58 million pages from over 260,000 volumes.
2019
2018
Global Summit of Research MuseumsMartin R. Kalfatovic is the Associate Director, Digital Programs and Initiatives at Smithsonian Libraries and Program Director of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. At Smithsonian Libraries, he is involved with scholarly communications, mass digitization, education and outreach, and product development and licensing. As the Program Director for the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), a consortium of sixteen natural history, research, and botanical garden libraries, he participates in the global coordination of the BHL project working with BHL partners in China, Brazil, Australia, the European Union, Egypt, Singapore, Mexico, and Africa. A regular contributor to popular and scholarly publications, he also writes on a variety of topics on his blog at UDC793. He can be found on Twitter @udcmrk and has an inordinate fondness for dodos.
Talk: Discoverable, Accessible, Reusable, and Transparent (DART): Scholarly Communications and the Research Museum
Abstract: Just as research museums in all disciplines are increasingly opening up collections for new uses, the scholarly communication ecosystem and research publication channels are now a core component for increasing the visibility and value of collections-based museums. It is generally accepted that the concept of "open" (access, science, etc.) provides valuable benefits and measuring the research output of an institution is somewhat ameliorated by open and digital access to scholarly output. Using the DART Framework developed at the Open Scholarship Initiative (2016) meeting as a touchstone, questions about discoverability, accessibility, reuseability, transparency of research museum scholarly communications will be addressed. Research Information Management, and the increasing variety of research output venues, are opportunities to show value to a global audience.
9th Shanghai International Library Forum
Martin R. Kalfatovic is the Associate Director, Digital Programs and Initiatives at Smithsonian Libraries and Program Director of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. At Smithsonian Libraries, he is involved with scholarly communications, mass digitization, education and outreach, and product development and licensing. A regular contributor to popular and scholarly publications, he also writes on a variety of topics on his blog at UDC793.
As the Program Director for the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), a consortium of sixteen natural history, research, and botanical garden libraries, he participates in the global coordination of the BHL project working with BHL partners in China, Brazil, Australia, the European Union, Egypt, Singapore, Mexico, and Africa.
As the Program Director for the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), a consortium of sixteen natural history, research, and botanical garden libraries, he participates in the global coordination of the BHL project working with BHL partners in China, Brazil, Australia, the European Union, Egypt, Singapore, Mexico, and Africa.
He earned his MSLS from School of Library and Information Science at the Catholic University of America in 1990. He can be found on Twitter @udcmrk and has an inordinate fondness for dodos.
Botany 2018
Martin R. Kalfatovic is the Associate Director, Digital Programs and Initiatives at Smithsonian Libraries and Program Director of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. At Smithsonian Libraries, he is involved with scholar communications, mass digitization, education and outreach, and product development and licensing. A regular contributor to popular and scholarly publications, he also writes on a variety of topics on his blog at UDC793.
As the Program Director for the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), a consortium of sixteen natural history, research, and botanical garden libraries, he participates in the global coordination of the BHL project working with BHL partners in China, Brazil, Australia, the European Union, Egypt, Singapore, Mexico, and Africa.
As the Program Director for the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), a consortium of sixteen natural history, research, and botanical garden libraries, he participates in the global coordination of the BHL project working with BHL partners in China, Brazil, Australia, the European Union, Egypt, Singapore, Mexico, and Africa.
He earned his MSLS from School of Library and Information Science at the Catholic University of America in 1990. He can be found on Twitter @udcmrk and has an inordinate fondness for dodos.
Martin R. Kalfatovic is the Associate Director at Smithsonian Libraries and Program Director of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. At Smithsonian Libraries, he is involved with scholarly communications, mass digitization, and education and outreach. A regular contributor to popular and scholarly publications, he also writes on a variety of topics on his blog at UDC793.
As the Program Director for the BHL, a global consortium of natural history, research, and botanical garden libraries, he directs the aggregation of content, global partnerships within the larger biodiversity world, and fosters collaboration and community among partners.
As the Program Director for the BHL, a global consortium of natural history, research, and botanical garden libraries, he directs the aggregation of content, global partnerships within the larger biodiversity world, and fosters collaboration and community among partners.
He has an inordinate fondness for dodos.
Ohio Natural History Conference
Martin R. Kalfatovic is the Associate Director at Smithsonian Libraries and Program Director of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. At Smithsonian Libraries, he is involved with scholarly communications, mass digitization, education and outreach, and product development and licensing. A regular contributor to popular and scholarly publications, he also writes on a variety of topics on his blog at UDC793.
As the Program Director for the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), a global consortium of more than 60 natural history, research, and botanical garden libraries, he directs the aggregation of content, global partnerships within the larger biodiversity world, and fosters collaboration and community among partners.
As the Program Director for the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), a global consortium of more than 60 natural history, research, and botanical garden libraries, he directs the aggregation of content, global partnerships within the larger biodiversity world, and fosters collaboration and community among partners.
He can be found on Twitter at @BHLProgDirector & @udcmrk and has an inordinate fondness for dodos.
Expanding Access for the Local and Global: Increasing Access & Empowering Global Biodiversity Research through the Biodiversity Heritage Library
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) has grown into a global consortium of 19 Members, 19 Affiliates and over 60 global partners. With the vision of "Inspiring discovery through free access to biodiversity knowledge," the BHL improves research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community. The free and open access to over 53 million pages of biodiversity literature spanning the 15th century to the present, is an invaluable resource to researchers around the world. How BHL grew to a global consortium, the value of citizen science to BHL, and its value to researchers working in Ohio as well as worldwide will be the focus of the keynote talk.
Expanding Access for the Local and Global: Increasing Access & Empowering Global Biodiversity Research through the Biodiversity Heritage Library
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) has grown into a global consortium of 19 Members, 19 Affiliates and over 60 global partners. With the vision of "Inspiring discovery through free access to biodiversity knowledge," the BHL improves research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community. The free and open access to over 53 million pages of biodiversity literature spanning the 15th century to the present, is an invaluable resource to researchers around the world. How BHL grew to a global consortium, the value of citizen science to BHL, and its value to researchers working in Ohio as well as worldwide will be the focus of the keynote talk.
2017
Library Leaders Forum 2017 (San Francisco) & Smithsonian Digitization Fair
Martin R. Kalfatovic is the Associate Director, Digital Programs and Initiatives at Smithsonian Libraries and Program Director of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. At Smithsonian Libraries, he is involved with scholarly communications, mass digitization, education and outreach, and product development and licensing. A regular contributor to popular and scholarly publications, he also writes on a variety of topics on his blog at UDC793.
As the Program Director for the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), a global consortium of more than 60 natural history, research, and botanical garden libraries, he directs the aggregation of content, global partnerships within the larger biodiversity world, and fosters collaboration and community among partners.
As the Program Director for the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), a global consortium of more than 60 natural history, research, and botanical garden libraries, he directs the aggregation of content, global partnerships within the larger biodiversity world, and fosters collaboration and community among partners.
He earned his MSLS from School of Library and Information Science at the Catholic University of America in 1990. He can be found on Twitter @udcmrk and has an inordinate fondness for dodos.
BHL Open Day Symposium (Singapore)
Martin R. Kalfatovic is the Program Director of the Biodiversity Heritage Library and Associate Director for Smithsonian Libraries. As the Program Director for the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), a consortium of sixteen natural history, research, and botanical garden libraries, he participates in the global coordination of the BHL project working with BHL partners in China, Brazil, Australia, the European Union, Egypt, Singapore, Mexico, and Africa.
At Smithsonian Libraries, he is involved with scholar communications, mass digitization, education and outreach, and product development and licensing. He earned his Master of Science in Library of Science from the School of Library and Information Science at the Catholic University of America. He can be found on Twitter @BHLProgDirector and has an inordinate fondness for dodos.
2016
8th Shanghai International Library Forum (SILF)
He earned his MSLS from School of Library and Information Science at the Catholic University of America in 1990. He can be found on Twitter @udcmrk and has an inordinate fondness for dodos.
The Summer Educational Institute for Visual Resources and Image Management (SEI)
He earned his MSLS from School of Library and Information Science at the Catholic University of America in 1990. He can be found on Twitter @udcmrk and has an inordinate fondness for dodos.
Martin R. Kalfatovic is the Associate Director, Digital Programs and Initiatives at Smithsonian Libraries and Program Director of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. At Smithsonian Libraries, he is involved with scholar communications, mass digitization, education and outreach, and product development and licensing. A regular contributor to popular and scholarly publications, he also writes on a variety of topics on his blog at UDC793.
As the Program Director for the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), a consortium of sixteen natural history, research, and botanical garden libraries, he participates in the global coordination of the BHL project working with BHL partners in China, Brazil, Australia, the European Union, Egypt, Singapore, Mexico, and Africa.
As the Program Director for the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), a consortium of sixteen natural history, research, and botanical garden libraries, he participates in the global coordination of the BHL project working with BHL partners in China, Brazil, Australia, the European Union, Egypt, Singapore, Mexico, and Africa.
He earned his MSLS from School of Library and Information Science at the Catholic University of America in 1990. He can be found on Twitter @udcmrk and has an inordinate fondness for dodos.
The Summer Educational Institute for Visual Resources and Image Management (SEI)
Martin R. Kalfatovic is the Associate Director, Digital Programs and Initiatives at Smithsonian Libraries and Program Director of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. At Smithsonian Libraries, he is involved with scholar communications, mass digitization, education and outreach, and product development and licensing. A regular contributor to popular and scholarly publications, he also writes on a variety of topics on his blog at UDC793.
As the Program Director for the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), a consortium of sixteen natural history, research, and botanical garden libraries, he participates in the global coordination of the BHL project working with BHL partners in China, Brazil, Australia, the European Union, Egypt, Singapore, Mexico, and Africa.
As the Program Director for the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), a consortium of sixteen natural history, research, and botanical garden libraries, he participates in the global coordination of the BHL project working with BHL partners in China, Brazil, Australia, the European Union, Egypt, Singapore, Mexico, and Africa.
He earned his MSLS from School of Library and Information Science at the Catholic University of America in 1990. He can be found on Twitter @udcmrk and has an inordinate fondness for dodos.
2015
2015 IMLS Focus
2015 CHIM Symposium, CUA
Martin R. Kalfatovic is the Associate Director, Digital Programs and Initiatives at Smithsonian Libraries and Program Director of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. As the Program Director for the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), a consortium of fourteen natural history, research, and botanical garden libraries, he participates in the global coordination of the BHL project working with BHL partners in China, Brazil, Australia, the European Union, Egypt, Singapore, Mexico, and Africa.
At Smithsonian Libraries, he is involved with scholar communications, mass digitization, education and outreach, and product development and licensing. His current research focuses on the BHL in terms of linking texts with taxonomic intelligence and other analysis tools, data curation for scholarly publications and ebooks, and semantic web issues around linked open data.A regular contributor to popular and scholarly publications, he also writes on a variety of topics on his blog at UDC793.
He earned his MSLS from School of Library and Information Science at the Catholic University of America in 1990. He can be found on Twitter @udcmrk and has an inordinate fondness for dodos.
2015 CHIM Symposium, CUA
Martin R. Kalfatovic is the Program Director of the Biodiversity Heritage Library and the Associate Director, Digital Services Division at Smithsonian Libraries. As the Program Director for the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), a consortium of fourteen natural history, research, and botanical garden libraries, he participates in the global coordination of the BHL project working with BHL nodes in China, Brazil, Australia, the European Union, Egypt, Singapore, Mexico, and Africa.
At Smithsonian Libraries, he is involved with scholar communications, mass digitization, education and outreach, and product development and licencing. A regular contributor to popular and scholarly publications, he also writes on a variety of topics on his blog at UDC793.
He earned his MSLS from School of Library and Information Science at the Catholic University of America in 1990 and is the 2013 recipient of the Raymond Von Dran Memorial Award Information from the Alumni Association. He can be found on Twitter @udcmrk and has an inordinate fondness for dodos.
2014
2014 CONABIO MeetingsMartin R. Kalfatovic es el Director del Programa de la Biblioteca del Legado en Biodiversidad (BHL) y el Director Asociado de la División de Servicios Digitales de las Bibliotecas del Instituto Smithsoniano. Como Director del Programa de BHL, un consorcio de dieciséis bibliotecas de museos de historia natural, centros de investigación y jardines botánicos, participa en la coordinación global del proyecto BHL trabajando con nodos de BHL en China, Brasil, Australia, la Unión Europea, Egipto, Singapur, y África.
Su investigación actual se enfoca en BHL en términos de asociar textos usando inteligencia taxonómica y otras herramientas de análisis, curación de datos de publicaciones académicas y e-books y asuntos de la Web Semántica acerca de datos abiertos ligados (Linked Open Data, LOD).
Obtuvo su MSLS de la Escuela de Bibliotecología y Ciencias de la Información en la Universidad Católica de América en 1990. Puede encontrársele en Twitter @udcmrk y mantiene un blog en http://www.udc793.org. Muestra un profundo afecto por los dodos.
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Martin R. Kalfatovic is the Program Director of the Biodiversity Heritage Library and the Associate Director, Digital Services Division at Smithsonian Libraries. As the Program Director for the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), a consortium of fourteen natural history, research, and botanical garden libraries, he participates in the global coordination of the BHL project working with BHL nodes in China, Brazil, Australia, the European Union, Egypt, Singapore, and Africa.
His current research focuses on the BHL in terms of linking texts with taxonomic intelligence and other analysis tools, data curation for scholarly publications and ebooks, and semantic web issues around linked open data.
He earned his MSLS from School of Library and Information Science at the Catholic University of America in 1990. He can be found on Twitter @udcmrk and maintains a blog at http://www.udc793.org. He has an inordinate fondness for dodos.
Catholic University Alumni Report
Martin R. Kalfatovic
Associate Director, Smithsonian Libraries and Program Director, The Biodiversity Heritage Library
At Smithsonian Libraries, he manages mass digitization, scholarly communications, and data analysis. Additionally, internship programs and education outreach as well as social media and product development are under his management.
As the program director for the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), a consortium of twenty natural history, botanical garden, and research libraries, he participates in the global coordination of the BHL project working with BHL nodes in China, Brazil, Australia, Sub-Saharan Africa, the European Union, Singapore, and Egypt.
He is a frequent contributor of articles and reviews and the author of three books, “Creating a Winning Online Exhibition: A Guide for Libraries, Archives, and Museums”, “The Fine Arts Projects of the New Deal: An Annotated Bibliography”, “Nile Notes of a Howadji: A Bibliography of Travelers' Tales from Egypt, from the Earliest time to 1918”. At CUA, a solid background in information systems and the human-computer interaction behind library automation prepared him for the ongoing and rapid changes in the in information ecosystem. He earned his MSLS from SLIS at the Catholic University of America in 1990.
International Conference on African Digital Libraries and Archives, May 2013
Martin R. Kalfatovic is the Program Director of the Biodiversity Heritage Library and the Associate Director, Digital Services Division at Smithsonian Libraries. As the program director for the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), a consortium of fourteen US and UK natural history and botanical garden libraries, he participates in the global coordination of the BHL project working with BHL nodes in China, Brazil, Australia, the European Union, Egypt, and most recently, Africa.
His current research focuses on the BHL in terms of linking texts with taxonomic intelligence and other analysis tools, data curation for scholarly publications and ebooks, and semantic web issues around linked open data.
He earned his MSLS from School of Library and Information Science at the Catholic University of America in 1990. He can be found on Twitter @udcmrk and maintains a blog at http://www.udc793.org. He has an inordinate fondness for dodos.
2012
Internet Archive Leaders' Forum, October 2012
Martin R. Kalfatovic is the Associate Director, Digital Services Division at Smithsonian Institution Libraries. The Digital Services Division oversees the Libraries digitization efforts which include digital editions and collections, online exhibitions, and other website content. Current projects include work on metadata, standards, intellectual property issues.
As Program Director of the Biodiversity Heritage Library and the Associate Director, Digital Services Division at Smithsonian Libraries. As the program director for the biodiversity heritage library (BHL), a consortium of fourteen US and UK natural history and botanical garden libraries, he participates in the global coordination of the BHL project working with BHL nodes in China, Brazil, Australia, the European Union, and Egypt.
Current research interests include linked data, taxonomic intelligence and other analysis tools; and the data curation and related issues that surround the publication of Smithsonian Contributions and Studies series in an electronic format. He is a frequent contributor of articles and reviews and the author of three books; his M.S.L.S. is from The School of Library and Information Science, The Catholic University of America, in 1990. He can be found on twitter @udcmrk and maintains a blog at http://www.udc793.org. He has an inordinate fondness for dodos.
NAGARA - CoSA Joint Annual Meeting, July 2012
Martin R. Kalfatovic is the Associate Director, Digital Services Division at Smithsonian Institution Libraries. The Digital Services Division oversees the Libraries digitization efforts which include digital editions and collections, online exhibitions, and other website content. Current projects include work on metadata, standards, intellectual property issues.
Current research interests include linked data, taxonomic intelligence and other analysis tools; and the data curation and related issues that surround the publication of Smithsonian Contributions and Studies series in an electronic format. He is a frequent contributor of articles and reviews and the author of three books; his M.S.L.S. is from The School of Library and Information Science, The Catholic University of America, in 1990. He can be found on twitter @udcmrk and maintains a blog at http://www.udc793.org. He has an inordinate fondness for dodos.
Smithsonian and the Internet, Washington, DC, July 2012
Martin R. Kalfatovic is the Program Director of the Biodiversity Heritage Library and the Associate Director, Digital Services Division at Smithsonian Libraries. He has an inordinate fondness for dodos. Libem071@SIVM.BITNET (that was then); @UDCMRK (this is now).
Presentation for the Mae Jemison Science Reading Room, Pretoria, South Africa, June 2012
Martin R. Kalfatovic is the Program Director of the Biodiversity Heritage Library and the Associate Director, Digital Services Division at Smithsonian Libraries. As the program director for the biodiversity heritage library (BHL), a consortium of fourteen US and UK natural history and botanical garden libraries, he participates in the global coordination of the BHL project working with BHL nodes in China, Brazil, Australia, the European Union, and Egypt.
His current research focuses on the BHL in terms of linking texts with taxonomic intelligence and other analysis tools, data curation for scholarly publications and ebooks, and semantic web issues around linked open data. In collaboration with the Smithsonian institution scholarly press, he manages the electronic publication of the Smithsonian contributions and studies series.
He earned his MSLS from School of Library and Information Science at the Catholic University of America in 1990. He can be found on twitter @udcmrk and maintains a blog at http://www.udc793.org. He has an inordinate fondness for dodos.
Education Grants
Martin R. Kalfatovic is the Assistant Director, Digital Services Division at Smithsonian Institution Libraries. The Digital Services Division oversees the Libraries digitization efforts which include digital editions and collections, online exhibitions, and other website content. Current projects include work on metadata, standards, intellectual property issues.
Current research interests include linked data, taxonomic intelligence and other analysis tools; and the data curation and related issues that surround the publication of Smithsonian Contributions and Studies series in an electronic format. He is a frequent contributor of articles and reviews and the author of three books; his M.S.L.S. is from The School of Library and Information Science, The Catholic University of America, in 1990. He has an inordinate fondness for dodos.
BHL Focus
Martin R. Kalfatovic is the Program Director of the Biodiversity Heritage Library and the Associate Director, Digital Services Division at Smithsonian Libraries. As the program director for the biodiversity heritage library (BHL), a consortium of fourteen US and UK natural history and botanical garden libraries, he participates in the global coordination of the BHL project working with BHL nodes in China, Brazil, Australia, the European Union, and Egypt.
His current research focuses on the BHL in terms of linking texts with taxonomic intelligence and other analysis tools, data curation for scholarly publications and ebooks, and semantic web issues around linked open data. In collaboration with the Smithsonian institution scholarly press, he manages the electronic publication of the Smithsonian contributions and studies series.
He earned his MSLS from School of Library and Information Science at the Catholic University of America in 1990. He can be found on twitter @udcmrk and maintains a blog at http://udc793.blogspot.com.
2011
CUA School of Library and Information Science Centennial Booklet 2011
Martin R. Kalfatovic is the Associate Director, Digital
Services Division at Smithsonian Institution Libraries. The Digital
Services Division oversees the Libraries’ digitization efforts, which include
digital editions and collections, online exhibitions, and other website
content. Current projects include work on metadata, standards, and intellectual
property issues. As the Deputy Program Director for the Biodiversity
Heritage Library (BHL), a consortium of twelve US and UK natural history and
botanical garden libraries, he participates in the global coordination of the BHL
project working with BHL nodes in China, Brazil, Australia, the European Union,
and Egypt.
His current research focuses on the BHL in terms of linking texts with taxonomic intelligence and other analysis tools, data curation for scholarly publications and ebooks, and semantic web issues around linked open data. In collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, he manages the electronic publication of the Smithsonian Contributions and Studies series.
He is a frequent contributor of articles and reviews and the author of three books, “Creating a Winning Online Exhibition: A Guide for Libraries, Archives, and Museums”, “The Fine Arts Projects of the New Deal: An Annotated Bibliography”, “Nile Notes of a Howadji: A Bibliography of Travelers' Tales from Egypt, from the Earliest time to 1918”. He earned his MSLS from SLIS at the Catholic University of America in 1990. He can be found on Twitter @udcmrk and maintains a blog at http://UDC793.blogspot.com.
His current research focuses on the BHL in terms of linking texts with taxonomic intelligence and other analysis tools, data curation for scholarly publications and ebooks, and semantic web issues around linked open data. In collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, he manages the electronic publication of the Smithsonian Contributions and Studies series.
He is a frequent contributor of articles and reviews and the author of three books, “Creating a Winning Online Exhibition: A Guide for Libraries, Archives, and Museums”, “The Fine Arts Projects of the New Deal: An Annotated Bibliography”, “Nile Notes of a Howadji: A Bibliography of Travelers' Tales from Egypt, from the Earliest time to 1918”. He earned his MSLS from SLIS at the Catholic University of America in 1990. He can be found on Twitter @udcmrk and maintains a blog at http://UDC793.blogspot.com.
SLA, June 2011
Martin R. Kalfatovic is the Assistant Director, Digital Services Division at Smithsonian Institution Libraries. The Digital Services Division oversees the Libraries digitization efforts which include digital editions and collections, online exhibitions, and other website content. Current projects include work on metadata, standards, intellectual property issues. As the Smithsonian's coordinator for the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), he oversees the Smithsonian's contributions and serves on the BHL Technical Committee.
Current research focuses on the Biodiversity Heritage Library project (www.biodiversitylibrary.org) in terms of linking texts with taxonomic intelligence and other analysis tools; and the data curation and related issues that surround the publication of Smithsonian Contributions and Studies series in an electronic format. He is a frequent contributor of articles and reviews and the author of three books; his M.S.L.S. is from The School of Library and Information Science, The Catholic University of America, in 1990. He has an inordinate fondness for dodos.
Linked Open Data Summit, June 2011
Martin R. Kalfatovic is the Assistant Director, Digital Services Division at Smithsonian Institution Libraries. The Digital Services Division oversees the Libraries digitization efforts which include digital editions and collections, online exhibitions, and other website content. Current projects include work on metadata, standards, intellectual property issues. As the Smithsonian's coordinator and Deputy Director for the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), he oversees the Smithsonian's contributions and serves on the BHL Technical Committee and international relations envoy.
Current research focuses on the Biodiversity Heritage Library project (www.biodiversitylibrary.org) in terms of linking texts with taxonomic intelligence and other analysis tools; and the data curation and related issues that surround the publication of Smithsonian Contributions and Studies series in an electronic format. He is a frequent contributor of articles and reviews and the author of three books; his M.S.L.S. is from The School of Library and Information Science, The Catholic University of America, in 1990. He has an inordinate fondness for dodos.
Ignite Smithsonian, 11 April 2011
Martin is a featherless bipedal librarian attempting to avoid extinction. Habitat: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Follow @udcmrk on Twitter.
2010
Designing Storage Architectures for Digital Preservation, September 27-28 2010, Library of Congress
Martin R. Kalfatovic is the Assistant Director, Digital Services Division at Smithsonian Institution Libraries. He is also a member of the Smithsonian's Digital Projects Advisory Committee, a pan-Institutional group that will implement the recently released Smithsonian digitization plan, "Creating a Digital Smithsonian."
BHL Australia (June 2010)
Martin R. Kalfatovic is the Assistant Director, Digital Services Division at Smithsonian Institution Libraries and the Deputy Project Director of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Interests include open source content and data, net neutrality, and comprehensive broadband access. Current research focuses on the Biodiversity Heritage Library project (www.biodiversitylibrary.org) in terms of linking texts with taxonomic intelligence and other analysis tools; and the data curation and related issues that surround the publication of Smithsonian Contributions and Studies series (www.sil.si.edu/smithsoniancontributions) in an electronic format. He is a frequent contributor of articles and reviews and the author of three books; his M.S.L.S. from The School of Library and Information Science, The Catholic University of America, in 1990. He has an inordinate fondness for dodos.
2009
OCLC Digital Forum East (November 2009)
Martin R. Kalfatovic is the Assistant Director, Digital Services Division at Smithsonian Institution Libraries. The Digital Services Division oversees the Libraries digitization efforts which include digital editions and collections, online exhibitions, and other website content. Current projects include work on metadata, standards, intellectual property issues. As the Smithsonian's coordinator for the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), he oversees the Smithsonian's contributions and serves on the BHL Technical Committee.Current research focuses on the Biodiversity Heritage Library project (www.biodiversitylibrary.org) in terms of linking texts with taxonomic intelligence and other analysis tools; and the data curation and related issues that surround the publication of Smithsonian Contributions and Studies series (www.sil.si.edu/smithsoniancontributions) in an electronic format. He is a frequent contributor of articles and reviews and the author of three books; his M.S.L.S. from The School of Library and Information Science, The Catholic University of America, in 1990. He has an inordinate fondness for dodos.
Flickr Paper (July 2009)
Martin R. Kalfatovic is the Assistant Director, Digital Services Division at Smithsonian Institution Libraries. The Digital Services Division oversees the Libraries digitization efforts which include digital editions and collections, online exhibitions, and other website content. Current projects include work on metadata, standards, intellectual property issues. He was the Smithsonian Institution Libraries lead on the Smithsonian Flickr Commons project. He is a frequent contributor of articles and reviews to various publications and the author of Creating a Winning Online Exhibition: A Guide for Libraries, Archives, and Museums (2002). He received is M.S.L.S. from The School of Library and Information Science, The Catholic University of America, in 1990.
CBHL (May 2009)
Martin R. Kalfatovic is the Assistant Director, Digital Services Division at Smithsonian Institution Libraries. The Digital Services Division oversees the Libraries digitization efforts which include digital editions and collections, online exhibitions, and other website content. Current projects include work on metadata, standards, intellectual property issues. As the Smithsonian's coordinator for the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), he oversees the Smithsonian's contributions and serves on the BHL Technical Committee.Current research focuses on the Biodiversity Heritage Library project (www.biodiversitylibrary.org) in terms of linking texts with taxonomic intelligence and other analysis tools; and the data curation issues that surround the publication of Smithsonian Contributions and Studies series (www.sil.si.edu/smithsoniancontributions) in an electronic format. He is a frequent contributor of articles and reviews to various publications and the author of Creating a Winning Online Exhibition: A Guide for Libraries, Archives, and Museums (2002). He received is M.S.L.S. from The School of Library and Information Science, The Catholic University of America, in 1990.
Computers in Libraries (March 2009)
Martin R. Kalfatovic is the Assistant Director, Digital Services Division at Smithsonian Institution Libraries. The Digital Services Division oversees the Libraries digitization efforts which include digital editions and collections, online exhibitions, and other website content. Current projects include work on metadata, standards, intellectual property issues, and access to the corpus of taxonomic literature as part of the Biodiversity Heritage Library, an international consortium of Natural History and botanical garden libraries. He is a frequent contributor of articles and reviews to various publications and the author of Creating a Winning Online Exhibition: A Guide for Libraries, Archives, and Museums (2002). He received is M.S.L.S. from The School of Library and Information Science, The Catholic University of America, in 1990.Current research focuses on the Biodiversity Heritage Library project (www.biodiversitylibrary.org) in terms of linking texts with taxonomic intelligence and other analysis tools; and the data curation issues that surround the publication of Smithsonian Contributions and Studies series (www.sil.si.edu/smithsoniancontributions) in an electronic format.
2008
ALA AnnualMartin R. Kalfatovic is the Head of the New Media Office at Smithsonian Institution Libraries. The New Media Office oversees the Libraries digitization efforts which include digital editions and collections, online exhibitions, and other website content. Current projects include work on metadata, standards, intellectual property issues, and access to the corpus of taxonomic literature as part of the Biodiversity Heritage Library, an international consortium of Natural History and botanical garden libraries. He is a frequent contributor of articles and reviews to various publications and the author of Creating a Winning Online Exhibition: A Guide for Libraries, Archives, and Museums (2002). He received is M.S.L.S. from The School of Library and Information Science, The Catholic University of America, in 1990.
Current research focuses on the Biodiversity Heritage Library project (www.biodiversitylibrary.org) in terms of linking texts with taxonomic intelligence and other analysis tools; and the data curation issues that surround the publication of Smithsonian Contributions and Studies series (www.sil.si.edu/smithsoniancontributions <http://www.sil.si.edu/smithsoniancontributions>) in an electronic format.
