JJ Dearborn serves the Biodiversity Heritage Library as Data Manager, working to share BHL data to the broader biodiversity community and the world.

She has worked on open access projects for the Peabody Essex Museum, Harvard University’s Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the City of Boston, and the State of Massachusetts. 

Dearborn holds an Masters of Science in Library and Information Science from Simmons College, Boston and a Bachelors in History from University of California, Los Angeles. 

She is passionate about liberating data and information, enabling the biodiversity community, and environmental conservation. 

Article

• Dearborn, Jacqueline J., Lichtenberg, Mike, Richard, Joel, deVeer, Joseph, Trizna, Michael, and Mika, Katie. 2023. "Unearthing the Past for a Sustainable Future: Extracting and transforming data in the Biodiversity Heritage Library for climate action." Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, 7. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.7.112436. 2023

Conference Paper

• Kalfatovic, Martin R., Crowley, Bianca, Dearborn, Jacqueline, Funkhouser, Colleen, Iggulden, David, Trei, Kelli, Herrmann, Elisa, and Merriman, Kevin. 2023. "Safeguarding Access to 500 Years of Biodiversity Data: Sustainability planning for the Biodiversity Heritage Library." from TDWG Proceedings 2023 in Biodiversity Information Science and Standards. TDWG 2023 (Tasmania) Sofia, Bulgaria: Pensoft. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.7.112430. 2023

Dataset

• Trizna, Michael G. and Dearborn, Jacqueline J. 2023. [Dataset] AI models are getting better and better at reading handwriting, but how can we find handwritten text to begin with? Distributed by Washington, DC: Smithsonian Office of the Chief Information Officer. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.23523495.V1. 2023
• Richard, Joel and Dearborn, Jacqueline J. 2022. [Dataset] BHL Optical Character Recognition (OCR) - Full Text Export (new). Distributed by Washington, DC: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.21422193.V4. 2022
• Dearborn, Jacqueline J. and Lichtenberg, Mike. 2022. [Dataset] BHL-hosted BibTeX Data Export. Distributed by Washington, DC: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.21081478.V2. 2022
• Dearborn, Jacqueline J. and Lichtenberg, Mike. 2022. [Dataset] BHL-hosted Knowledge Bases And Related Tools (KBART) Export. Distributed by Washington, DC: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.21081727.V1. 2022
• Dearborn, Jacqueline J. and Lichtenberg, Mike. 2022. [Dataset] BHL-hosted Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS) XML Data Export. Distributed by Washington, DC: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.21082192.V1. 2022
• Dearborn, Jacqueline J. and Lichtenberg, Mike. 2022. [Dataset] BHL-hosted RIS Data Export. Distributed by Washington, DC: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.21081925.V1. 2022
• Dearborn, Jacqueline J. and Lichtenberg, Mike. 2022. [Dataset] BHL-hosted Tab-Separated (TSV) Data Export. Distributed by Washington, DC: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.21081922.V1. 2022
• Dearborn, Jacqueline J. and Lichtenberg, Mike. 2022. [Dataset] Complete BHL BibTeX Data Export. Distributed by Washington, DC: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.21081547.V1. 2022
• Dearborn, Jacqueline J. and Lichtenberg, Mike. 2022. [Dataset] Complete BHL Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS) XML Data Export. Distributed by Washington, DC: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.21081526.V1. 2022
• Dearborn, Jacqueline J. and Lichtenberg, Mike. 2022. [Dataset] Complete BHL RIS Data Export. Distributed by Washington, DC: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.21081664.V1. 2022
• Dearborn, Jacqueline J. and Lichtenberg, Mike. 2022. [Dataset] Complete BHL Tab-Separated (TSV) Data Export. Distributed by Washington, DC: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.21081739.V1. 2022

Report

• Dearborn, Jacqueline J. 2023. Unifying Biodiversity Knowledge to Support Life on a Sustainable Planet. Biodiversity Heritage Library. https://doi.org/10.21428/bcf8962c.699434fb. 2023

Presentation

• Dearborn, Jacqueline J. and Mika, Katherine. 2022. [Poster] Extracting expedition log data found in the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Through the door and through the web: releasing the power of natural history collections onsite and online, June 5, 2023. Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom: Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6593457.