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About
From my CV:

Chris Freeland is the Director of the Center for Biodiversity Informatics at the Missouri Botanical Garden and the Technical Director of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Mr. Freeland has an M.S. in Biological Sciences from Eastern Illinois University and has worked as a technologist in scientific organizations for more than 10 years. He has been a project manager for several large informatics projects, including the development of the Tropicos botanical information system, online at www.tropicos.org, and the BHL, online at www.biodiversitylibrary.org.

Contact
Chris Freeland - cfreeland27@gmail.com
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Presentations
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BHL in the Cloud: A Pilot Project with DuraCloud. National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) Conference. Washington, DC, 21 July 2010.

Digitizing Engelmann's Legacy: Mapping Plant Specimens that Document the Great American Frontier. ESRI Education User Conference. San Diego, California, 13 July 2010.

BHL Technologies: A Review for BHL-Australia. BHL-Australia Startup, Museum Victoria. Melbourne, Australia, 1 June 2010.

BHL Technical Report. BHL Institutional Council Meeting, American Museum of Natural History. New York, 22 March 2010.

BHL @ TDWG2009 - Linked Literature, BHL Developments & CiteBank. TDWG Annual Meeting. Montpellier, France, 12 November 209.

BHL: Overview. EOL BioSynC Liverworts Meeting. Field Museum, Chicago, 26 May 2009.

BHL Technology Overview for BHL-Europe. BHL-Europe Kickoff Meeting. Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, 12 May 2009.

Digital Libraries for Science: Botanicus and Biodiversity Heritage Library. II Latin American Plants Initiative. Buenos Aires, Argentina, 18 November 2008.

An evaluation of taxonomic name finding & next steps in Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) developments. Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG). Fremantle, Australia, 21 October 2008.

Using the JPEG2000 image format for storage and access in biodiversity collections. Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG). Fremantle, Australia, 21 October 2008.

BHL: Purposeful Technology. Boston Library Consortium Meeting, Boston Public Library. Boston, MA, 18 March 2008.

Plays well with others, or What I’ve learned as a data provider in an interoperable world. Museum Computer Network Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, 2007.

Botanicus.org: Applying emerging technology to historic scientific literature. Botany 2007, Chicago, IL, 2007.

User Needs: Biodiversity Heritage Library. Taxonomic Databases Working Group, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2007.

BOTANICUS: Providing global access to digitized taxonomic reference literature. 3rd Global Botanic Gardens Congress, Wuhan, China, 2007.

Botanicus.org: Prototyping a Web 2.0 Interface to Digitized Taxonomic Literature. Taxonomic Databases Working Group, St. Louis, Missouri, 2006.

“The Universal Exposition – Using 1904 World’s Fair History to Start a Digital Library.” Presented at the Missouri State Library Digitization Conference, Kansas City, MO, 2004.

Mellon Rare Book Consortium. Presented at Royal Botanic Garden, Kew, and the Natural History Museum, London, 2003.

The Morning After: What to consider once your site is online. Presented at the Missouri State Library Digitization Conference, Columbia, MO, 2003.

Digital Imaging and Conservation Databases at the Missouri Botanical Garden. Presented at Monsanto World Headquarters, Saint Louis, MO, 2002.

Mainstreaming Digital Imaging: Missouri Botanical Garden: Results. Presented at the Missouri State Library Workshop, Jefferson City, MO, 2002.

A Digitization Primer for Botanical and Horticultural Librarians. Presented at the 34th Annual Meeting of the Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries, San Francisco, CA, 2002.

Learning from Others. Presented at the Missouri Digitization Conference, Columbia, MO, 2002.

Papers & Proceedings
Freeland, Chris. (2008). An evaluation of taxonomic name finding and next steps in BHL developments. Proceedings of TDWG. Fremantle, Australia, 20-24 October 2008. Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG).
Abstract: http://www.tdwg.org/proceedings/article/view/319
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Freeland, Chris. (2008). Using the JPEG2000 image format for storage and access in biodiversity collections. Proceedings of TDWG. Fremantle, Australia, 20-24 October 2008. Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG).
Abstract: http://www.tdwg.org/proceedings/article/view/340
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Freeland, C., Kalfatovic, M., Paige, J., & Crozier, M. (2008). Geocoding LCSH in the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Code4Lib Journal: 2. http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/52

Freeland, Chris. (2007). Biodiversity Heritage Library: Progress & Potential. Proceedings of TDWG. Bratislava, Slovakia, 16-22 September 2007, pp. 10. Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) and the Missouri Botanical Garden. http://www.tdwg.org/proceedings/article/view/207