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Digital Library Center
Smathers Libraries
University of Florida
P.O Box 117003
Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
P: 352.273.2900
F: 352.846.3702
DLC@uflib.ufl.edu
Digital Library Center Projects
All projects are hosted within the University of Florida's Digital Collections (UFDC). Documentation for the many collections, projects, technologies, equipment, and workflows is also available online.
The largest and most utilized UFDC collections are:
- Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC)
- Florida Digital Newspaper Library
- Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature Digital Collection
- Institutional Repository (description, includes projects in lieu of theses)
All current projects are listed here and within the current departmental goals including: digital collections, large and small as with exhibits for collections; technology projects to support the collections (static pages for search engines, RSS feeds; etc); assisting others (partner training; assisting with Preservation's retrospective dissertation project; the reborn brittle books program; and coordinating with collection managers to plan, develop, maintain, and create digital collections.
New Digital Projects & Collections
Collection managers can propose new digital projects using the digital collection development template, with feedback from the DLC on technologies and requirements or input from any other needed sources. The proposals are submitted to the Advisory Group for Research Services and Scholarly Resources (AGRSSR) for approval and prioritization.
Other projects in process include datamining collections to create humanities and social science research, including developing indices currently done manually; cross-language comparisons; tracking the evolution of concepts; and more, for these and other projects:
- Index for African-related theses and dissertations completed at the University of Florida (and supporting simple indices as widgets for use by departments and colleges; e.g.; the College of Journalism)
- Index for the 40 print volumes of St. Nicholas (24 have been digitized); 10 have been indexed manually (online)
- Integration of existing indices for Caribbean and Florida newspapers (CNIP; Goza-Mickler; Alligator)
- Cross-language comparisons of Papiemento and Papiementu
- Analysis of Jaqi Languages
- Legal history and evolving legislature
- Ephemeral Cities
- Developing authorities and identities using EAC for various collections
Partners
Partners are listed on the collection pages and item pages for each of collaborative collections, and information for potential partners is available here.
Technology Focused Projects
- Researching and developing new ways to integrate and show digital collections (automatic creation of static pages for collection items, for search engine optimization)
- Map Displays
- Digital Preservation and Archiving
