The post below is by Paul Losch, from the UF Latin American Collection newsletter. Football season begins tomorrow and Gator fans may be interested to know that the UF football team visited Havana in December 1912, nearly 99 years ago. They went on a kind of informal athletic excursion that was relatively common before...
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UF Digital Collections on History Detectives
The James Patton Anderson Digital Collection within the UF Digital Collections (UFDC) was recently featured on History Detectives. The video of it is online and the segment starts at around 22:21. It’s always wonderful to see how people are finding and using materials available in UFDC!
Europeana and Online Exhibits
In April, Europeana announced that they would be releasing a number of additional online exhibits this year. They’ve already released quite a few including: From Dada to Surrealism Exhibition Live Yiddish Theatre in London Virtual Exhibition Live These are wonderful online exhibits on their own. It’s also wonderful to see Europeana’s dedication to supporting...
UFDC/SobekCM Tracking System
The UF Digital Collections System, SobekCM, is always being enhanced to better meet user and internal needs. Normally the vast majority of time is spent on the user side because user support is the priority. With dozens of partners who use the online and locally installed tools to manage their digitization work and to...
E-Science & Digital Humanities
The new FSU E-Science librarian visited UF recently. I mentioned this in conversation to a friend who hadn’t heard of E-Science. I explained it simply as the Science parallel to the Digital Humanities. In thinking this over later, it’s a very easy explanation for the Digital Humanities and is explained in various publications and...
New UFDC Features: Browse By, Admin Header, and Export to Excel
Browse By Metadata (i.e., list of all publishers in an item aggregation) The UF Digital Collections (UFDC) have more new features. These are all in progress, as is the norm with the perpetual beta of growing and evolving systems, but the “Browse By” feature is already publicly viewable here for the Baldwin Library of...
Saving St. Augustine’s Architectural Treasures
The UF Libraries are collaborating with Flagler College on a two-year project to conserve and digitize the earliest architectural drawings of John Carrère and Thomas Hastings, designers of the Hotel Ponce de Leon and the Flagler Memorial Presbyterian Church in St. Augustine, Florida. All digitized materials will be openly available in the Carrère &...
Simplified URLs in Beta
The URLs for the UF Digital Collections are now shorter and easier. The new programming, by Mark Sullivan, to support simplified URLs: Shortens the base URL for UFDC Prevents server names from showing (an ongoing issue during the major server move) Removes the need for the aggregation code type indicator (the a, c ,...
Super Secret, or infrastracture is awesome with directory views
In addition to great added functionality like item-level statistics for external users, the UF Digital Collections‘ underlying SobekCM system is always improving in terms of internal infrastructure. One recent major enhancement is the “Directory” view. The Directory View is very important to ensure we can easily and quickly check and verify all files, including...
Item Level Usage Statistics
The UF Digital Collections (UFDC) greatly benefit from the statistical tracking of items, pages, and usage. Most recently, those statistics were augmented at the item level for easy item-level statistics for each and every item. The item-level statistics, like all of the usage statistics for UFDC, are cleaned for robots and other automated systems...