This document describes the cooperation and collaboration of BHL and Plazi, oncommon goals. It outlines common goals and areas of common interests, andclarifies key areas of responsibility. The digital arena allows building a large corpus ofliterature and from that a “graph” of knowledge or knowledge graph throughidentification, extraction and linking of data. It provides an emerging access platformto the knowledge beyond the conventional traditional human-reader focused access.It allows new modes of access, including text and data mining, search, visualizationand the discovery of new findings based on the accessibility of data.