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Digital Library Center Projects, 2008-2009

Spring 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.

  • Digitization Projects
    • Florida Newspapers
    • Institutional Repository: agriculture, UF Archives, newsletters
    • dLOC (current grant is in the fourth year, requires 10,000 pages; gazettes already in the DLC and posters for CM project)
    • Everglades (3 year, 1/2009-12/2011)
    • Martin Rikli (photograph collection, 896 images)
    • Historic St. Augustine (mini-grant)
    • Coastal Engineering (contract)
    • Harn Catalog (partnership) and Slides (IMLS)
    • Collaborative ASERL Project, "Intellectual Underpinnings of the American Civil War"
    • Photos from the Health Science Center Archives
    • Testing requirements for digitizing theses submitted as projects in lieu of
  • Completed Projects
  • Technology and User Support Projects
    • Help pages and documentation (continuous need)
    • Usability studies (continuous need)
    • Print general set of postcards and bookmarks and solicit feedback (examples here)
    • Design rack brochure for use on campus and with external agencies
    • Complete sending and ingest of NDNP newspapers
    • Sending Baldwin to ICDL (ongoing)
    • dLOC Training for The College of the Bahamas (2/09)
    • Continue outreach programs for UFDC, FDNL, and dLOC (brochures and screencasts); Presentations (multiples, including those done for AAUW on 1/09 and FL-SAA on 4/22); tours of the DLC (ongoing)
    • Creating path/finding guides for UFDC
    • NEFLIN training (done 2/09)
    • Updated UFDC to use new UF Libraries header (2/09)
    • Added iPhone icon
    • Maintaining and updating registries (UFDC listings in FDLP Registry)
  • Technology Projects:
  • Operational Automation:
    • Automating Archiving to Tivoli
    • OCR to Server room and automated
    • Automate sending files to OCA (awaiting feedback from OCA, 2/09)
    • Reporting System in Tracking DB (in process since 12/08)
  • UFDC Enhancements/Integration:
    • MARCXML: Create and test automated load with FCLA for Endeca
      • Links added to items already in catalog (2008)
      • Collections cataloged at the collection level
      • MARCXML being resent with thumbnails for items (2/09) and then feed with thumbnails for JUV and MAPS sent (5/09)
    • Map view for search results (done 5/09)
  • Completed Technology Projects:
    • Make web application work with Greenstone 2.81(done 2/09)
    • Make builder accept port assignments for SSH/SCP (done 2/09)
    • Test with Lucene Indexing once GD upgraded (done 2/09)
    • Beginning move of tracking information to UFDC (item level information, archives, status, now in UFDC records)
    • Statistics (completed 1/09)
      • Compile raw data
      • Add to database
      • Add to web applicationToolkit Update (Completed Fall 2008)
      • Statistics will continue to be updated quarterly
    • Interface improvements (completed 3/09)
      • 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 (3/09)
  • Technology Projects, Fall 2009 (in planning)

Completed Projects, Fall 2008

  • dLOC training in the Dominican Republic, dLOC presentation in Curaçao, CITT Presentation
  • Fall 2008: DLC Toolbox, Test with new version of tracking (completed)
  • Details on technology development
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