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Appropriate Metaphors for Collection Scopes and Sizes?

September 10, 2009

The University of Florida Digital Collections (UFDC) has grown from September 2007′s 1 million pages (pages of books, newspapers, archival materials, maps, posters, audio, video, photos, and more) to 2 million in July 2008, 3 million in December 2008 (thanks to ingesting microfilm digitized by a vendor) and then to 4 million in July...

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Critical Mass

March 12, 2009

I’ve blogged quite a bit about UFDC’s page count as we reached 1 million, 2 million, and 3 million pages, digitizing 100,000 pages and more a month. I’m equally excited by every new milestone, but with so many pages online UFDC has reached critical mass overall and in many individual collections like the Florida...

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UFDC Stats Again

February 6, 2009

I haven’t posted on UF Digital Collections (UFDC) stats lately, so while there’s no milestone, I like to share frequently. Since July 1, UFDC has added 76,152 items in 8,837 titles (newspapers have lots of issues under a single title) with 1,215,009 pages to the UF Digital Collections. I love seeing that many digits...

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Usage Statistics

January 23, 2009

The UFDC usage stats are now online in great detail. The stats include overall, collections by date, items by date, collection history, items by collection, and definitions to sort out what all of this means. The items by collection is particularly interesting where you can see how many hits are on particular items, like...

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UFDC Usage Stats!

January 12, 2009

We now have usage statistics for our collections as a whole and by collection! They’re online here in an Excel spreadsheet. Our overall usage stats, while good, are far smaller than they will be because so much of our content is recent (over a million pages since July alone) and because UFDC was forced...

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The University of Florida Digital Collections have 3 million pages, and counting!

December 7, 2008
The University of Florida Digital Collections have 3 million pages, and counting!

The title says it all–or as much as can be said with any brevity. The University of Florida Digital Collections (UFDC) now have 3 million pages! Or to be exact 3,012,406 which means that since October 4 we’ve added over 500,000 pages and that we’ve added a full million pages since July. Our largest...

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UFDC in the News

November 21, 2008

The UF Digital Collections are in the newest issue of Florida, UF Alumni Magazine on “Gator Bytes” with a note on the Baldwin Library Digital Collection and with a four page story on postcards from UF and Gainesville, from the Matheson Museum Collection hosted by UFDC. The story includes beautiful images of the postcard...

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Loading on Hold, Day Seven

November 13, 2008

We had a drive fail on our development box, which runs our loader. This wouldn’t have caused much of a delay, but we had people out and the drive should have recovered with a disk check (or at least that’s how it appeared). With the holiday yesterday, we’re running hopefully the last of the...

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New RSS Feeds!

October 16, 2008

UFDC now has more RSS feeds! The feeds are available here, http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/ufdc2/rss/, and can be added to readers or webpages of your choice (and these are again thanks to our ever-working, industrious and creative programmer)! The new RSS feeds and other improvements include ongoing optimization for faster loading online and for faster internal processing....

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Ever-closer to Another Milestone!

October 4, 2008

The University of Florida Digital Collections (UFDC) currently has 109,991 total items, which make up 60,664 different titles (newspapers, serials, and so forth mean one title can have thousands of items so that’s why these numbers differ), for 2,471,489 total pages. Of that total 34,578 items in 5,067 titles with 512,204 pages have been...

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