The Architecture and Implementation of Biodiversity Digital Library in China

Digital library is the trend of current traditional library. However, many problems, such as data collection, sharing, cooperation among different libraries and the copyright, disturb the development of digital library. Based on previous work and the cooperation with BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library), this paper gives a description on lots of affairs in the construction of digital library in biodiversity: the hardware and software, the workflow with IA (Internet Archive), database basis, the architecture and the function. Some development works and future work are also demonstrated in the paper. The application of digital library in biodiversity will largely improve the service of related resources in traditional libraries and also have a pilot effect for many libraries in other disciplines.