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Digital Library Center Projects, 2008-2009

The Digital Library Center recognizes that collections can be made more complete and more useful through partnerships. The DLC maintains many content development and technology assistance partnerships which cannot be adequately represented by project names and statistics alone.

GRANTS AWARDED:

  • America’s Swamp: the Historical Everglades, NHPRC grant awarded to Special Collections and the DLC
  • With the Grants Manager, facilitated the submission of grant proposals:
    • Baldwin Phase IV, with Rita Smith and Nancy Poehlmann, which will be submitted to NEH, http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/ufdc/?c=juv
    • Carrère and Hastings Architectural Drawings, collaborative grant with Flagler College and Special Collections, submitted to NPS; http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/ufdc/?s=caha
    • Florida Aerials Phase III, with Carol McAuliffe, Joe Aufmuth, and Stephanie Haas, submitted to LSTA,
      http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/ufdc/?c=FLAP
    • Caribbean Newspaper Digital Library, with Richard Philips and Paul Losch, and dLOC, submitted to TICFIA, http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/ufdc/?c=cndl
    • Digging into Data, assisted with grant by others at UF to data mine the Baldwin

OVERALL UFDC ACCOMPLISHMENTS

  • Added 1,911,040 pages to UFDC (from July 1, 2009-June 30, 2009)
    • Added 636,932 pages to the Florida Digital Newspaper Library, for a total of 757,533
    • Added 328,037 pages to dLOC, for a total of 720,890
    • Added 321,767 pages  to the Baldwin, now total of 824,903
  • UFDC Usage stats for 2009:
    • January: 340,563
    • February: 460,511
    • March: 618,148
    • April: 552,650
    • The highest number of hits per month for UFDC in 2009 was March, with 618,148.
      This is up by 253,774 from the highest month in 2008, which was November 2008 with 364,374 hits.

DEPARTMENTAL MILESTONES

  • Florida Digital Newspaper Library adds Born Digital Newspapers (new in 2008!)
    The Florida Digital Newspaper Library is now successfully ingesting 12 newspapers as born digital. The DLC now receives the electronic printer files from publishers instead of having to digitize from paper. This results in a cost savings for DLC ingest and processing, and in having higher quality images archived.
  • Theses submitted as “Projects” now electronic/digital for the first time, made possible by the UFIR
    Masters Theses are now all processed electronically through the Graduate School Editorial Office. However, theses submitted as “projects” have not been continued to be submitted in paper for binding or not at all. Dina Benson, the IR Coordinator, established born digital ingest procedures for departments with projects, to ensure materials are archived and accessible. Dina is working with Ann Lindell, Tom Caswell, Patrick Reakes, and other CMs to receive electronic files from now on. This saves on printing, binding, shelf space, handling, and processing, and provides better service by providing easier and wider access.
  • UFDC records loaded to Endeca (with thumbnails!)
    Made possible by the DLC, Systems, CatMet, Josh Greben and Jean Phillips at FCLA, Rich Bennett, and many others
  • UFDC Materials in Motion, Mapped, & More

PROJECTS SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED

PAPERS PUBLISHED

  • Lourdes Santamaria Wheeler, MA Thesis, “Digitizing museum objects : the Elmer Harvey Bone Photographic Collection.”
  • Matt Mariner, “Optical Character Recognition,” in Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, accepted.
  • Randall Renner, “The End and How it Looks,” Electronic Republishing of MA Thesis, in support of the project-in-lieu-of pilot project and is now a successful initiative.  
  • Laurie Taylor co-edited an edited collection of scholarly essays and co-wrote the introduction (Playing the Past: Video Games, History, and Memory. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt UP: 2008.); co-authored one article; authored  three scholarly peer review articles, three encyclopedia entries; and one book review. 
  • Appointment/Election to an Office in a Professional Organization: Laurie Taylor was appointed as a member of the ALCTS/PARS

PRESENTATIONS/TRAINING

  • dLOC Training in the Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Curaçao, Aruba; Haiti, UCF
  • DLC training on full processing and metadata editing for others in the Libraries' for use on collaborative projects
  • UFDC Presentations & Training: CITT Presentation; NEFLIN training; Libraries; Harn; AAUW; tours of the DLC
  • Creation of additional postcards and bookmarks and solicit feedback (examples here)

TECHNOLOGY PROJECTS

  • MARCXML: Created and automated load with FCLA for Endeca
    • Links previously added to items already in catalog (2008)
    • Collections cataloged at the collection level (new)
    • MARCXML feed, with thumbnails, established and automated
  • Interoperability
  • Interface improvements
    • Thumbnail view for first page of all volumes in serial (example)
    • Main browses and searches now have "Full view" and "Brief view" added to "List" and "Thumbnail"
    • Roll-ups for multivolume sets
    • UFDC homepage now autogenerated from collection information in Toolkit
    • Map view for browses and search results and others
    • Updated UFDC to use new UF Libraries header
    • Added iPhone icon
    • UFDC newspaper specific searching in response to a previous usability test with Marilyn Ochoa:
    • UFDC print style sheet to better control printing of resource page
  • Made web application work with Greenstone 2.81
  • Made builder accept port assignments for SSH/SCP
  • Implemented Lucene Indexing after GD upgraded
  • Statistics
    • Compiled raw data
    • Added to database
    • Added to web applicationToolkit Update (Completed Fall 2008)
    • Statistics will continue to be updated quarterly
  • UFDC backed up to Tivoli
  • UFDC mirrored on UFDClinux1 and UFDClinux2
  • Alias set up as UFDClinux so that direct URLs with IPs were not needed, so that hardlinks do not fail when using UFDClinux1 or UFDClinux2
  • OCR4 moved to Server room, and automated by modifying existing UFDC OCR toolkit
  • Filmlog basic information online
  • Report on files archived and not online now automatically made weekly
  • Details on other technology development and achievements
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