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Biodiversity Heritage Library Metadata and Page Images

Provided by: The Biodiversity Heritage Library , part of the Open Data

Biodiversity Heritage Library Metadata and Page Images

Provided by: The Biodiversity Heritage Library , part of the Open Data

This product is part of the Open Data and contains data sets that are publicly available for anyone to access and use. No subscription is required. Unless specifically stated in the applicable data set documentation, data sets available through the Open Data are not provided and maintained by AWS.

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.

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.

How to cite

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

Update frequency
Metadata is updated monthly. Images are updated weekly.
Support information

Contact: feedback@biodiversitylibrary.org

General AWS Data Exchange support

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/