Digital Support Services (DSS)
Smathers Libraries
University of Florida
P.O Box 117003
Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
P: 352.273.2900
F: 352.392.6597
UFDC@uflib.ufl.edu
Digital Collection Services
Also, see Digital Humanities support. >>
The DSS provides a variety of services for developing, managing, and promoting archival and scholarly assets.
Digital Collection Support: Hosting & Customization
- Creation, hosting, support, and stewardship of digital objects and collections within the UF Digital Collections
- All collections are:
- Full text searchable
- Browseable - with browse views by title and thumbnail, and by new items
- Serve text, image, multimedia, audio, video files, data sets, and more within the same collection
- Support for multiple file types (text, image, oversized images, video, audio)
- Powered by rich metadata support, with automatic transformations for maximum interoperability
- Customization of collections
- Customized collection pages and supplemental pages
- Customized interfaces (e.g.; dLOC and Matheson Historical Museum)
- Collections benefit from central infrastructure - new technologies are added for all (e.g.; map search using the Google Maps API)
- Internationalized/localized interfaces in English, Spanish, and French
Sharing/Access
All records are open and fully available for download and use under the terms of Creative Commons CC0.
- Open Archives Initiative (OAI) compliant
- UFDC supports the OAI protocol for metadata harvesting (OAI-PMH). OAI allows anyone to obtain records from UFDC for inclusion in their collections. The base URL is: http://ufdc.ufl.edu/sobekcm_oai.aspx?
- Using the base URL, you can add OAI verbs and other commands. For example:
- Verb: Identify:
- Verb: ListMetadataFormats:
- Verb: ListSets:
- UFDC supports the OAI protocol for metadata harvesting (OAI-PMH). OAI allows anyone to obtain records from UFDC for inclusion in their collections. The base URL is: http://ufdc.ufl.edu/sobekcm_oai.aspx?
- URI's provide unique and constant links ready for bibliographic citation
- Records for all collections and items:
- available as METS/MODS, MARCXML, and qualified Dublin Core
- all formats are accessible online
- a batch record feed in MARCXML is available here
- all records and feeds include thumbnail icons. Catalogs can show the thumbnails along with records to greatly assist patrons in browsing and reviewing materials
- RSS feeds for all items and all new items
- Worldwide reach via Google, Google Scholar, and other search engines
- Rooted in providing Open Access to archival and scholarly assets
- Notification tools for new content alerts via RSS
- Increase archival and scholarly assets' audience and access
- Image zoom and pan viewing capabilities
- Ability to serve a variety of organizational options for objects including:
- hierarchical groupings allowing collocation by Area, topic, and geographical hierarchies for College, Department
- monographic, page-turning functionality
- multiple files connected to one descriptive record
- one item, one record
- mapping between various versions of a single work
- journal volume, issue, title organization
- Broad, internationally applied description methods using METS/MODS Metadata
- Ability to apply controlled vocabularies and name headings
Scholarly Publications & Rights management
- Journal hosting with Open Journal Systems (OJS), supported through the UF Libraries (more information)
- Authors remain the copyright holders
- Library requests right to distribute content
- Assist with understanding copyright status of work
- Creative Commons licensing capabilities
- Assist with mandatory deposit of electronic-only publications to the Library of Congress
Digitization of materials held by the Libraries
- Digitization equipment operated within a color managed environment for artifactual fidelity:
- large format scanner for maps
- slide scanner
- open book scanner for fragile objects
- high speed sheet feed scanner
- flat bed scanners
- digital photography studio for large or 3-D objects
- Digitization experts
- Software Suite - the Digitization Toolkit
- Customizable Software Toolkit for contributing digitized materials
- Digitization manual
- Information about the Toolkit
- Publishing
- Convert traditional publications into digital publications
- Provide a means for born digital publication
- For other materials: CITT Faculty Media Lab (pricelist)
Digital Curation & Stewardship
- Internships (internship policy; available internships; internships with partners: Samuel Proctor Oral History Program)
- Content Knowledge & Outreach
- Collection Support & Processing
- Metadata Coordination
- Preservation & Archiving
- Bit level archiving
- Multiple redundant data back-ups provided
- Migration of various formats supported
- Ability to archive all format types
- System interoperability
- Training on technologies for digital stewardship
- Digital curation for data sets
- Digital curation for digital scholarly works (following established guidelines to support evaluation)
- Digital humanities (speculative computing) project collaboration and supports; see example projects:
- Curated online exhibits: by scholars and students with scholarly review
- Digital Library of the Caribbean : Teaching Materials Collection: graduate humanities students developed materials as part of coursework)
- Arts of Africa: curated online collection from library and museum materials, with related physical exhibit
- Digital Vodou: curated scholarly archive of primary and research materials
- Supporting interns, fellows, and visiting scholars
- Collaborative support on projects (speculative; reflective; interpretive; analytical) and to support existing research enhanced with technology
Authors and Patrons
- myUFDC
- self-submittal system for the UF Institutional Repository
- user tools for saving searches, creating and sharing collections, and many others
- reference support by email, phone, and mail for all collections
Standards Compliant
- METS Metadata
- Digitization standards followed:
- High resolution TIFFs or A/V for archiving
- JPEG2000 format for viewing
Digital Collection Development, Project Management, and Post-Development Tools & Services
- Funding: Grants and assistance locating other funding opportunities
- Project Development Resources
- Evaluation:
- Online usage statistics provide usage counts overall, by collection, and by item
- Annual usability studies
- User feedback
- Promotion:
- Collection Findable through main UFDC site, which is already optimized for search engines; through the UF Catalog; through WorldCat
- Promoted through the UFDC Blog; through RSS feeds; through press releases and training classes
- Development of promotional materials (brochures, exhibits, slideshows)
- Additional
- Assistance available for loading to external sites (YouTube, Flickr) for promotion
- New technologies benefit all when implemented
Last modified: Tuesday February 21 2017 lp