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Excerpt from UF’s Latin American Collection News, 2/16/10: DIGITIZATION UPDATE While much of the digitization work at UF has concentrated on the Federally-funded Digital Library of the Caribbean, this is by no means the only effort here to make documents related to Latin American Studies available online. The UF Digital Center is developing other projects, such as: Women in Development: An interdisciplinary collection enjoying the generous support of individuals who pioneered this field in the Caribbean, Latin America and Africa Panama and the Canal: Initial site for a developing partnership between the UF Libraries and the Panama Canal Museum UF Institutional Repository: See instructions hereRead More →

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The usage statistics for January 2010 for the UF Digital Collections are now online here: http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/ufdc/?m=htu The top collections continue to be the Digital Library of the Caribbean, the Florida Digital Newspaper Library, and the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature, with nearly 100.000 hits each in January alone. The most used collections, and the total numbers with over 10 million hits to the UF Digital Collections since March of 2006, are always impressive. However, my favorite statistics are the most popular items by collection (available for all collections here). For instance, the Digital Library of the Caribbean’s most popular item is Sus mejores poemasRead More →

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Mark Sullivan, the DLC programmer who supports the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) and the UF Digital Collections, pulled these images together with the new satellite imagery just released. These are images of the dLOC partner buildings before and after the Earthquake from Google Earth. There is obvious damage, but it appears as though all but the BHPSE look to be fairly intact.  The National Library looks to have a good bit of damage, especially in the back where the newspaper archives are.  The FIC (“Christian Brothers” ) library seems fine and the historic archives building is still standing as well.Read More →

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From the Digital Library of the Caribbean: Our thoughts are with our partners and friends in Haiti.  Please consider donating to one of the many trusted relief organizations on behalf of Haiti. Nos pensées sont avec nos partenaires et amis en Haïti. S’il vous plaît envisager de faire don à l’une des nombreuses organisations de confiance de secours en faveur d’Haïti. Nuestros pensamientos están con nuestros socios y amigos en Haiti.  Por favor, considerar cualquier donación a una de las organizaciones voluntarios de ayuda a favor de Haiti. Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders International Committee of the Red Cross UNICEF USA World FoodRead More →

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Source code is available on the SourceForge project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/metseditor/files/ Email Discussion List in Google Groups: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/sobekcm-discuss Open Source METS Metadata Editor: Download About the Open Source METS Metadata Editor One of the newest of the continual upgrades to the UF Digital Collections is online metadata editing. To make that fully operational our programmer, Mark Sullivan, revised the current standalone METS Metadata Editor application to ensure it remained in parallel. In doing so, Mark noticed that he could quickly adapt our METS Metadata Editor to serve the needs of all of the State University Libraries in Florida. Mark made those updates and the METS MetadataRead More →

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The UF Digital Collections (UFDC) now have fully functioning online metadata editing! It’s only been a few weeks since the UFDC self-submittal tool for  faculty to use to load materials to the Institutional Repository and for UFDC partners to use to load materials to their collections went live and now we’ve already added  full online metadata editing.  Mark Sullivan, the programmer who created the internal metadata editor originally as a desktop tool and who has now made the online tool with the same and even enhanced functionality over the desktop tool, released the online metadata editing earlier this week. We’ve been keeping the release quietRead More →

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SobekPH, the free UFDC iPhone App (available from iTunes here) for the UF Digital Collections has been downloaded 76 times since it was released on November 23. Most of the downloads have been in the US, but there are downloads from all around the world already! Downloads Country Code 2 GB 4 DE 2 AU 51 US 2 CA 1 IE 2 FR 1 ES 1 CN 1 PH 1 HK 1 KR 2 IT 1 RO 2 JP 2 RURead More →

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The iPhone App for the UF Digital Collections is now live and can be downloaded from iTunes here. The App, codenamed SobekPH for the Crocodile god Sobek (even crocodiles are Gators in Gainesville) and PH for iPhone, makes it easy to browse and search a number of the collections within the UF Digital Collections. SobekPH is a great iPhone App on it’s own, and it’s because it showcases the power and excellent design of the UF Digital Collections. I often try to explain to people how and why UFDC’s infrastructure is so excellent, why that’s so important, and what it then makes possible. Normally, theseRead More →

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I was reading the latest issue of UF Today, and it had the wonderful photograph above of one man shaving another with an axe. The story next to it explains that the photo is from a Department of Forestry Field Day from 1937. It’s such a great photo, I wanted to be sure to ask Carl Van Ness (the Head of Manuscripts in Special Collections and the University Archivist) when I noticed the caption that states the photo is in the UF Digital Collections. Finding the photo was already findable was a nice surprise, and a nice reminder of the importance of the work beingRead More →