Kalfatovic, Martin R.
Associate Director | BHL Program Director
0000-0002-4563-4627
Kalfatovic, Martin R.
Associate Director | BHL Program Director
Information technology. Library Science, Biodiversity, Digitization of Library Collections, New Deal Fine Arts program, Travel and Exploration Literature, Digital Libraries, Social Media, Library Instruction, Information Literacy
Background And Education
Education And Training
- B.A., Catholic University of America
- M.L.S., Catholic University of America
Professional Biography
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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.
He has an inordinate fondness for dodos.
Public Biography
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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.
He has an inordinate fondness for dodos.
Research And Grants
Investigator On
- Enhancing the Museum Data Ecosystem: Mining Research Publications for Museum Specimens awarded by Office For The Under Secretary For Science 2023 -
- Biodiversity Heritage Library: African Planning Meeting awarded by Field Museum of Natural History
- Digging into Data Challenge: Mining Biodiversity awarded by Missouri Botanical Garden
- Digital Public Library of America awarded by Harvard University
- Field Book Project awarded by Arcadia Trust
- Support for Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) - FY2014 awarded by Library of Congress
- Support for Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) - FY2015 awarded by Library of Congress
- Support for Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) Executive Committee awarded by U.S. Geological Survey
- Support for Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) Executive Committee awarded by U.S. Geological Survey
- Support for Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) Executive Committee - FY2014 awarded by U.S. Geological Survey
Publications
Selected Publications
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Abstract
- Kalfatovic, Martin Robert, Funkhouser, Colleen, Rinaldo, Constance, Iggulden, David, Trei, Kelli, and Crowley, Bianca. 2021. "Cultivating Resilience in the Biodiversity Heritage Library During the Global Pandemic: Improving access to existing content." Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, 5: e73732. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.5.73732. 2021
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Article
- Smith, Vincent, French, Lisa, Vincent, Sarah, Woodburn, Matt, Addink, Wouter, Arvanitidis, Christos, Bánki, Olaf, Casino, Ana, Dusoulier, Francois, Glöckler, Falko, Hobern, Donald, Kalfatovic, Martin R., Koureas, Dimitrios, Mergen, Patricia, Miller, Joe, Schulman, Leif, and Juslén, Aino. 2022. "Research Infrastructure Contact Zones: a framework and dataset to characterise the activities of major biodiversity informatics initiatives." Biodiversity Data Journal, 10. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.10.e82953. 2022
- Kalfatovic, Martin, Rinaldo, Constance, Smith, Jane, Iggulden, David, and Funkhouser, Colleen. 2020. "The Biodiversity Heritage Library Response to the Global COVID-19 Pandemic." Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, 4 e58481. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.4.58481. 2020
- Kalfatovic, Martin R. and Rinaldo, Constance. 2019. "BHL and Specimen Collection Data: The needle in the Festuca stack." Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, 3 e37787. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.3.37787. 2019
- Kalfatovic, Martin R. and Costantino, Grace. 2018. "The Biodiversity Heritage Library: Empowering Discovery through Free Access to Biodiversity Knowledge." KULA, 10, (10). https://doi.org/10.5334/kula.41. 2018
- Kalfatovic, Martin R. 2017. "How Did BHL Get to Big Data." Proceedings of TDWG, 1 e20002. https://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20002. 2017
- Anderson, Rick, Denbo, Seth, Graves, Diane, Haigh, Susan, Hill, Steven, Kalfatovic, Martin R., Kaufman, Roy, Murray-Rust, Catherine, Shearer, Kathleen, Wilder, Dick, and Wise, Alice. 2016. "Report from the "What is Open?" Workgroup." Open Scholarship Initiative Proceedings, 1 1–5. https://doi.org/10.13021/G8XK5R. 2016
- Pilsk, Suzanne C., Kalfatovic, Martin R., and Richard, Joel M. 2016. "Unlocking Index Animalium: From paper slips to bytes and bits." ZooKeys, (550) 153–171. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.550.9673. 2016
- Rinaldo, Constance, Warnement, Judith, Baione, Tom, Kalfatovic, Martin R., and Fraser, Susan. 2011. "Retooling Special Collections Digitisation in the Age of Mass Scanning." Ariadne, (67). 2011
- Pilsk, Suzanne C., Person, Matthew A., DeVeer, Joseph M., Furfey, John F., and Kalfatovic, Martin R. 2010. "The Biodiversity Heritage Library: Advancing Metadata Practices in a Collaborative Digital Library." Journal of Library Metadata, 10 136–155. https://doi.org/10.1080/19386389.2010.506400. 2010
- Kalfatovic, Martin R., Kapsalis, Effie, Edson, Michael, Van Camp, Anne, and Spiess, Katherine P. 2009. "Smithsonian Team Flickr: a library, archives, and museums collaboration in web 2.0 space." Archive Science, 8, (4) 267–277. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-009-9089-y. 2009
- Kalfatovic, Martin R., Freeland, Christopher, Paige, Jay, and Crozier, Marc. 2008. "Geocoding LCSH in the Biodiversity Heritage Library." Cod4Lib Journal, (2). 2008
- Unlocking Index Animalium: From paper slips to bytes and bits. ZooKeys.
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Chapter
- Kalfatovic, Martin R. 2022. "Building Resiliency in Digital Library Networks: The Biodiversity Heritage Library." In The Proceedings of the Eleventh Shanghai International Library Forum. 61–68. Shanghai: Shanghai Scientific and Technological Literature Press. 2022
- Kalfatovic, Martin R., Costantino, Grace, and Rinaldo, Constance A. 2019. "The Biodiversity Heritage Library: Unveiling a World of Knowledge About Life on Earth." In Digital Libraries for Open Knowledge. Doucet, Antoine, Isaac, Antoine, Golub, Koraljka, Aalberg, Trond, and Jatowt, Adam, editors. 352–355. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. 11799 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30760-8_32. 2019
- Kalfatovic, Martin R. and Rinaldo, Constance. 2016. "Enabling Progress in Global Biodiversity Research: The Biodiversity Heritage Library." In The Proceedings of the Eighth Shanghai International Library Forum. 406–418. 2016
- Kalfatovic, Martin R., Sandler, Trish-Rose, Rinaldo, Constance, Thompson, Keri, and Ulate, William. 2012. "Collaboration and communication tools used by the Biodiversity Heritage Library." In JCDL '12 Proceedings of the 12th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital Libraries.. 361–362. New York, NY: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2232817.2232891. 2012
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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
- Funkhouser, Colleen, Rinaldo, Constance, Iggulden, David, Trei, Kelli, Kalfatovic, Martin R., and Crowley, Bianca. 2021. "Cultivating Resilience in the Biodiversity Heritage Library During the Global Pandemic: Improving access to existing content." from TDWG Proceedings 2021 in Biodiversity Information Science and Standards. TDWG 2021 (Virtual) 2021-10-21. Sofia, Bulgaria: Pensoft Publishers. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.5.73732. 2021
- Kalfatovic, Martin R. 2018. "Cultural Heritage and the Technology of Culture: Finding the Nature of Illumination in Libraries and Museums." from Proceedings of the Ninth Shanghai International Library Forum. 79–88. (Shanghai, China) 2018-10-17. Shanghai: Shanghai Scientific and Technological Literature Press. 2018
- Kalfatovic, Martin R. and Fourie, Anne-Lise. 2015. "The Biodiversity Heritage Library and African digital libraries in the global context." from Proceedings of the International Conference on African Digital Libraries and Archives (ICADLA) 4th. 2015
Contact
Location
- Smithsonian Libraries and Archives Department
