Biodiversity Heritage Library Metadata and Page Images

biodiversity bioinformatics life sciences

Description

The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives. BHL operates as a worldwide consortium of natural history, botanical, research, and national libraries working together to digitize the natural history literature held in their collections and make it freely available for open access.

Update Frequency

Metadata is updated monthly. Images are updated weekly.

License

Public Domain, CC0, or Creative Commons. Exact licenses are found in the related metadta files and documentation.

Documentation

Documentation can be found at our GitHub repository.

Managed By

The Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Contact

feedback@biodiversitylibrary.org

How to Cite

Biodiversity Heritage Library Metadata and Page Images was accessed on DATE from https://registry.opendata.aws/bhl-open-data.

Usage Examples

Tools & Applications
Publications

Resources on AWS

  • Description
    Image files (JPEG-2000) and associated metadata describing the image and the book or article that contains the image.
    Resource type
    S3 Bucket
    Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
    arn:aws:s3:::bhl-open-data
    AWS Region
    us-east-2
    AWS CLI Access (No AWS account required)
    aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://bhl-open-data/

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