Botanicus.org: About Botanicus - Digital Library from the Missouri Botanical Garden

Botanicus.org: About Botanicus - Digital Library from the Missouri Botanical Garden: "The project undertakes four aims:
Develop a model for digitized scientific literature: a universal data structure and metadata schema that will define how scientific disciplines, museums, or individual scientists use and configure available digitized literature on their subjects to initiate or support a research project;
Program and test an extensible reference system based on the scientific literature model and universally applicable to all areas of natural history;
Capture a robust, targeted subset of systematic botanical literature as images and associated defining metadata for those references, and employ automated OCR and XML markup protocols to convert the image to text and embed links to external data sets;
Provide a Web Portal to the scientific literature system that will facilitate research and intensify the vital work on science-based conservation of the world's biological diversity through an interactive, intelligent interface to systematic botanical literature. "