Updates to the UF Digital Collections, Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC), and Florida DIgital Newspaper Library

Work continues on the UF Digital Collections, Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC), and Florida DIgital Newspaper Library!

Work to support these is now in 4 main areas, from Library Technology (in addition to so many other folks working!):

  • Patron interface
  • Ongoing production support (standard tool needs, loads of batch ingests especially newspapers, etc.)
  • Production tools: looking at creating a new spreadsheet importer to create METS files and add to the system
  • Data workflow pipeline: loads of resaves and corrections to existing METS files, looking holistically at data across the full workflow to ensure coherence, sustainability, and maintainability including record ingest/creation, record flows out, digital preservation, and more

Today, we have some highlight updates for the patron interface that folks can see! Much of the work ongoing is under-the-hood, so while there is loads of work underway that makes things better for users, the majority is invisible, like the extensive accessibility work and optimization, sitemaps (made for robots!), and more!

New updates that you can see:

Usage statistics from prior to November 2021 are now included:

RSS feeds now available for new items: