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Digital Services (DLC)
Smathers Libraries
University of Florida
P.O Box 117003
Gainesville, FL 32611 USA

P: 352.273.2900
F: 352.846.3702
UFDC@uflib.ufl.edu

An A B C, for Baby Patriots

Description: An A B C, for Baby Patriots, by Mary Frances Ames, 1899.

Collection: Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature Digital Collection

Ramón Figueroa Mexican & Cuban Film Poster Collection


Collection: Digital Library of the Caribbean

Drew Field Echoes

Description: Newspaper published at the Drew Field Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida.

Collection: Florida Digital Newspaper Library

Antique Maps, Historic Sanborn Maps, and Aerial Photography



Collection: Map & Imagery Library Digital Collections

Archie Carr and Sea Turtles

Description: Archie Carr attaching weather balloons to sea turtles.

Collection: University Archives Photograph Collection

Alfred Browning Parker

Description: Alfred Browning Parker, architectural drawings, from the University of Florida Architecture Archives

Collection: University of Florida Libraries Architecture Archives Collection

Digital Library Center: Achievement on Department Goals for 2009-2010

Completed projects are here.

Ongoing goals include:

  • produce regular capacity reports, and maintain them on the DLC website here
  • review and improve workflows to increase production
  • continue to provide a full service approach for digital collections and materials (web design, help pages, reports, collateral), permissions research and clearance, metadata creation
  • support ongoing digitization programs
    • Digital Library of the Caribbean, Institutional Repository, FDLP, University Archives videos, Antique maps, Africana collections, Florida History Collections (Florida and the Civil War)
  • conduct training, outreach, presentations, and tours
  • create support materials for training and outreach (IR LibGuide)
  • support partners with file transfers
  • support new projects
  • support new grants
  • promote the collections through registries and harvesters (FDLP Registry; SouthComb; LC ; NSDL; OpenDOAR; adding OA journals to DOAJ) and other sites like the UF Libraries on YouTube
  • promote the collections through other
  • conduct usability studies annually
Digitization Production Goals
Caribbean Newspaper Digital Library / CNDL (10/2009 - 9/2013):
-Meet all grant expectations on schedule
-Acquire permissions to digitize more Caribbean news titles
----32 granted when grant submitted
----permissions requested and received are listed on CNDL queue
---- 3/2010: permissions requested for Bon Nouvel; Gazettes - Cayman Islands, Grenada, St. Vincent, St. Kitts

Modify existing toolkit for newspaper-specific needs
- zoning: manual and automatic for several test newspapers
- IPTC G2 compliant metadata for each article
- released as Open Source for other projects to use
- auto-feed records to partner catalogs
- Select several titles for article level indexing and text

Create partner pages and interfaces for all new partners
Digitize Caribbean Newspapers
Integrate CNIP indexing data into CNDL
Acquire born digital files from newspaper publishers
At least 55,000 images per year from all partners
Develop copyright/permission request manual and training guides
Newspaper biographies for 32 titles
Usability testing and increased usage

Outreach
Create curriculum guides for newspapers in Caribbean languages
Two teacher training workshops
Caribbean Speaker Series, video broadcast
Conference presentations
Lesson plan competition
Print materials: mailings, bookmarks, postcards, posters, calendars, etc
Cost share: DLC: .15 FTE (Laurie .05 FTE and Mark .10 FTE)
3/2010: many permissions requested and received, see list.

integrate Carib news into news queue, complete 10/09
Panama Canal materials
- Ingest of materials scanned by IA
- GovDocs that can't be processed by IA
- SASC materials selected by CM
- PCM materials
3/2010: DLC implemented BHL app

3/2010: download complete for born digital files; requires processing
Everglades (1/2009 - 12/2011; digitization 4/2009 - 10/2011, or 30 months):

99,690 pages in 30 months; requires an average of 3,323 pages/month

Requirements include contextual supports and other supplements to production
Requirements listed here and in the grant proposal

OPS Funding is $67,500 ($22,500 per year for 3 years: 2009; 1/2010 - 12/31/2010; 1/2011 - 11/2011)
Core Project Team: .30 FTE DLC (Lourdes: .10 FTE; Jane: .10 FTE; Matt: .05 FTE; Laurie: .05FTE); OPS: 1.25 FTE [2 Scan Techs: each .375FTE, total .75 FTE; and 2 QC Techs: each .25FTE, total .5 FTE]
5/1/2010: 13 mo, 43,199 pages req

(4/22/10: 47,381)
4/2010: 12 mo, 39,876 pages req.

3/24: 42,503 pages
3/1/10: 11mo, 36,520 pages req.
Florida Aerials (grant period 10/2009 - 9/2010)

Digitize/load/archive 21,417 aerials
Link 21,417 aerial photos to georectified images
Digitize 13,418 historical aerial photographs and 120 paper indexes
Incorporate 7,473 aerial photographs from FDOT
2/2010 note: many of the FDOT aerials are lower-res duplicates of other files

Requirements:
Digitization
New interface
DLC zip all aerials by county for easy batch downloads

Core Project Team:
.23 FTE DLC (Randall: .05 FTE; Mark: .15FTE; Jane: .03 FTE)
OPS: $10,424 for 1,390 hours

Reports due April 1, 2010 and November 1, 2010 and report format online
7/10, interface due

4/10: interface due

4/12/10: scanning remaining 1,000 paper aerials, with them can de-dupe and fill in from FDOT and sids to complete

2/24/10: 11,595 complete; assessing prior scans to load, rescan

10/23/09: 3,198 scanned, need progr. updates before load

7/1/09: 85,276 aerials online
Newspapers: goals for the Florida Digital Newspaper Library:
- Catch up to only one year behind in digitization production
- Move at least 30 newspapers born digital
4/22/10: per CMs: 6 print dropped and requesting 10 born digital only to maintain coverage
2/10: 40 born digital
10/09: 37 born digital
8/09: 15 born digital
8/09: FTP operational
Newspapers: Digital Military Newspaper Library mini grant (proposal)

Funding: $4,166.40 for student OPS and $224.66 in storage and archiving

-16 newspapers (15 are born digital, 1 is historic from the Panama Canal Zone)
- Hire student to create custom interfaces, landing pages, wordmarks, and biographies for each of the newspaper titles

Semester One:
Student will research and write newspaper biographies for each of the grant newspapers and for the Jax Air News and the Tyndall Target, two existing military newspapers already digitized and online from the UF Libraries. Published for the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville, Florida, the Jax Air News has 1,000 issues already online spanning 1945-2009. The Tyndall Target was published at Tyndall Air Force Base in the 1940s. It ceased publication with the closing of the base like many military newspapers, and could have been lost if it were not for the copies preserved in paper and film by only four institutions including the USF Libraries, and now online in the Florida Digital Newspaper Library. After the student finishes researching, writing, and editing the newspaper biographies in collaboration with the Development Office, the student will give the biographies to the PI. The PI will incorporate these biographies into the citations which will then feed into the catalog through the MARCXML records automatically created for the Military Newspaper Digital Collection through the infrastructure provided by the UFDC System.

During the second semester of the project (the final 16 of the total 32 weeks), the student will work with Barbara Hood to develop brochures and other materials for use in supporting donor development for the Military Newspaper Digital Collection and the Florida Digital Newspaper Library as a whole.

Achievement of the project’s goals will be based on the following criteria:
-- Successful harvesting and processing of the 16 newspaper titles
-- Promotion of the collection that generates use of the resources for teaching and research among faculty, students and the general public
-- Potential future use of the Digital Military Newspaper Library as a demonstration of the viability of more digital newspaper sub-collections

IR & Institutionally Related Projects:

  • Born digital serials
  • Born digital files from SPOHP
  • Projects in lieu of these (departments contributing)
  • FLAG and SPOHP legacy files
  • Maintaining supporting list of serials and UF Publications by College
  • Florida Anthropologist; Florida/Caribbean Architect; Jamaica Journal; Sargasso (all after 2 years old)
  • Self-submitted materials
  • University Press of Florida materials
  • Meet all goals for the EAC/UF Institutional History mini grant (proposal)

Project in Lieu of Theses

  • Completed 2009 - 2/24/10: 23
  • Expected in the next year: 56-84
    CFA: 20
    DCP: 20-30
    DI: 12-30 depending on many factors
    Journalism: 4
IR: Encoded Archival Context, EAC, Mini-Grant (proposal)
11/2009-9/2010

Funding: Programmer $3,600 and student workers

Implement EAC support, once EAC standard finalized to power underlying infrastructure needed for real authorities/identities for archives, authors, and users; i.e., faculty through self-submittal system (reference: METS: developing integrative practices)

Feb 2010, update:
Special Collections hired two students (Stephanie and Vanessa) the second week of Jan. Each student is working 10 hrs/week. Special Collections trained the students, and created a basic data entry form (here and here). The students are completing one of these for every single instance of a unit. For example, if Nursing changed names four times there will be four different forms for each instance. They began working on all of the medical units, and they should finish inputting data this week. Carl is proofing all of the forms to fill in missing data, answer questions, etc., and Carl and John are giving them feedback on how to input the data better. Next, John will bring all of the data together into EAC instances (the final EAC release is imminent). That process will be relative straightforward and the students will help with that. Stephanie is already working on Design, Construction and Planning, and Vanessa will be working on Business next. Those should go fairly quickly.
The DLC wrote and posted the programmer job description, and now pre-screening for tech skills; hire expected within the next 2-3 weeks.

Jan. 2010
Advertise, hire, and train three student positions: two data gathering students (Van Ness and Nemmers) and one programmer position to create base .Net programming for the open-source EAC metadata editor.
Create list of organizational data sources (Van Ness and Nemmers).
Repurpose existing contextual data encoded in EAD finding aids by programmatically transforming EAD elements to corresponding EAC elements (Nemmers).

Students begin formatting the data: Depending on the nature and format of the resources, the students will either key in the information or scan and convert to text using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology (Benson and Taylor).

Hire programmer student and explain programming requirements (Taylor and Sullivan).

Jan.-May 2010
Data students collect contextual data.
Programmer develops the .Net programming to create an open-source metadata editor to facilitate the creation and editing of EAC metadata.

May-June 2010
Programmer submits EAC editor, and Sullivan completes testing/revision of EAC editor.

June 2010
Data students complete data gathering and formatting.

July-Aug. 2010 Data students create EAC instances using editor (process includes input of contextual data).

Sept.-Oct. 2010
Revision of existing EAD files using revised EAC contextual data (Nemmers).
Publication of EAC instances online in both XML and HTML.

Museum & Special Projects Goals:

  • Online and physical exhibits: listed here
  • Training and Support
  • Support museum and partner collaborations, may inc. self-submittal tool for their materials and collections; investigation of the self-submittal tool and citation-only view as options for integration of museums, archives, and library catalogs (for removing the SILOs of the LAMs)
  • Promotion and development for existing and new projects
  • Compilation of all UFDC items "seen/heard" in recent publications and news (biscuit in Florida magazine, ILL requests for items for scholarly publications; etc); UFDC requests for items for others' events and exhibits
  • Attending a museums/archives/libraries event (AAM conference; MCN conference; etc) if possible per funding and workflow
  • Adding relevant projects to MCN Project Registry
  • Possibly participating in IMLS wiki discussion (guide)
Bryant: Assist with film ingest
4/10: pending digital file availability

Flagler Architectural Drawings (grant proposal)
24 months: 7/2010-6/2012 (initial timeline, 1/2010-12/2011, was delayed)

Timeline, 2010:
July-Aug: conservation
Sept-Oct: digitization of items 1-50
Nov-Dec: digitization of 51-100

Timeline, 2011:
Jan-Feb: digitization of 101-150
Mar-Apr.: digitization of 151-175
May-Jun: digitization of 176-200
July-Sept: digitization of 201-225 (more delicate materials, req. more time)
Oct-Dec: digitization of 226-250

Timeline, 2012:
Jan-Mar.: digitization of 251-267
Apr-Jun: create collection pages and supports; create partner interfaces for Flagler College and Memorial Presbyterian Church; publicize project and collection availability

Cost share: Renner .10 FTE (full grant period) and Mariner .08 FTE (year 2 only)
Grant funding: 654 hours at $12/hour in OPS (total $7,920 over two years, $3,960 per year)

Retrospective projects

  • Baldwin Phase II: 85 items remain
    4/20/10: 6111 online
    4/13/10: all files from cd loaded: 586 are color pages only; 85 remain; 6102 online
    7/2009 - 4/2010: 469 volumes loaded
  • Florida Geological Survey (Complete list of remaining FGS items)
    4/22: 145 items remain; 15,979 pages loaded this fiscal year
    3/1/10: 218 items left
    7/09-3/10: 10,113 pages loaded
    2/10: 15 page list of remaining items
    10/09: working through 46 page list
  • Files on CD/DVD (Archived, but not on UFDC: 11/16 corrected list; list by collections; UPDATED without Baldwin); for SPOHP, all DARK are invalid, must be changed to public, loaded from DVD, and processed)
  • Treister slides that are already scanned
  • Yulee: correct metadata for all 2,400 items (2/24/10: existing available metadata updates loading)
Historic Preservation Documents (Matt)
1,000 items, details
Requires: find, compile author info; request permissions; digitize. Average 11 hours per item
2/16/10: collection made; 13 items done
11/09, began
Army Map Sets
4/12/2010: total count remaining est. 4,659 maps
@160 sets or 4,400 maps remain to be done on 1/2010, these are in addition to many others already done
- 2/27/10: updated list for project mgmt
4/10: checking item count

1/10: began
Continue Extending & Improving Service to the Libraries
Research
2009-2010 Will Canova, PI on mini-grant
2009-2010 Dina Benson, PI on mini-grant
 
Coursework
Dec. 2009 Carrie Salazar awarded MLIS
2009-2012 Matt Mariner pursuing Master of Historic Preservation (MHP)
2009-2010 Jane Pen, pursuing Bachelor of Applied Science, Health Services Administration
   
Awards & Recognition
2010 Lourdes, UF Division Three Superior Accomplishment Award
   
Libraries' Committee Service:
2010-2012 Carrie Salazar, Bookathon
2009-2011 Jane Pen, Convocation committee
2009- Traveler Wendell, Emerging Technologies Group
2009-2011 Joe Kaleita, Employee Recognition Committee
2009- Randall Renner, Grants Management Committee
2008- Dina Benson and Laurie Taylor, ETD Group
2009 Dina Benson, Open Access Week Planning Group
2009-2010 Laurie Taylor, Open Access Group
2009- Laurie Taylor, AGRSSR, Library IT/Middle Managers
2008- Laurie Taylor, DISC with DISC 2009 report on digitization projects
   
Trainings Attended & Cross-Trainings
5/25/2010 Randall attending the NEFLIN project management training
4/26/2010 Randall attended the supervisor challenge
4/2010 Carrie attended ARLIS
4/2010 Dina attended Computers in Libraries
3/17/2010 Randall and Laurie attended a webinar on Stewardship
3/16/2010 Randall attended a Project Management Course
2/17/2010 Dina attended Handheld Librarian (mobile apps for digital libraries)
2/17/2010 Randall attended Florida Memory webinar
2/17/2010 Joe cross-trained with Matt Mariner on load, archive, metadata
2/16/2010 Carrie attended Staff Performance Management
1/2010 All DLC staff cross-trained on the IR self-submittal tool
12/2009 Randall attended Lyrasis' Mass Digitization Info Session
11/2009 Dina and Will attended the mini-grant training
10/2009 Dina, Jane, Nelda, Carrie, Traveler, & Laurie Ask-a-librarian training
10/2009 Dina attended all Open Access week sessions; all DLC staff attended at least one session
10/2009 Dina and Laurie attended the EAC Webinar (OCLC and RLG)
9/2009 Dina attended a Digital Commons webinar
9/18/2009 Randall and Traveler attended the mini-grant workshop
8/6/2009 Randall attended the Grantsmanship Series
   
Presentations, Workshops, and Formal Trainings Given
2009-2010 Presentations list
2009-2010 Two interns in the DLC (Kaitlin and Brandon)
Fall 2009 All DLC provided training for UWI visitor (Mr. Palmer)
10/2009 Dina created an IR LibGuide
   
Other Service & Leadership Roles
2009- Mark Sullivan, Programmer for the Digital Library of the Caribbean, Florida Digital Newspaper Library, and the UF Digital Collections
2009- Randall Renner, Product Consultation Liaison with IIRI
2009- Lourdes Santamaria-Wheeler, Training Specialist for the Digital Library of the Caribbean
2009- Laurie Taylor, Technical Director for the Digital Library of the Caribbean and the Florida Digital Newspaper Library
   
Professional Memberships
2009- Carrie Salazar: ALA and ARLIS
2009- Laurie Taylor: ALA, FLA, and MLA (Modern Language Association)
   

Next UFDC Update (updated 2/25/10)

  1. General cleanup (discovered during code commenting)
    1. Remove overwrite_from_database flag from Greenstone_Results_Builder?
    2. Remove search url from UFDC_Hierarchy_Object?
    3. Add thematic collection to item aggregation routine
    4. Clean up Constant_Settings and Application_Settings... what is the difference anyway?
    5. Collapse  Collection_Hierarchy and Code_Manager
    6. Fully implement the new SobekCM Instance Name  property in current mode
  2. Finish implement printing options for item view
  3. Correct postback issue with Folder Management
  4. Finish implementing  the URL rewriter (forward)  for ‘clean’ urls ( ufdc/juv à ufdc?a=juv )
  5. Text search view for items… look at design… missing box and myUFDC functionality
  6. Finish implementing user-aggregation preferences in  Collection and SubCollection elements for non-internal users
  7. Finish implementing translational support for item aggregations
  8. Add ‘container’ element for box, folder, item information
  9. Update new item viewer to support multi-page  templates
  10. Update user object creation to ensure at least one ( My Bookshelf )  default folder always exists ( even if not in database)
  11. Public display of folders
  12. [OPTIONAL] Implement name as subject element
  13. [OPTIONAL] Implement title as subject element

UFDC  Search Update ( Aerials Grant )

  1. Ensure multiple geographic zones for a single item in the database
  2. Implement item-level cartographic searching
  3. Implement new javascript based toolkit to include search rectangles (existing), search point, and information about a point/area.  (Will also be used for inputting areas and points via the online metadata update process)
  4. Implement database-level metadata searching as well

METS Editor Update

  1. Read the FDA information from METS files ( and processing parameters?)
  2. Put a ‘Add Files’ option on the top of the structure map
  3. Add option to view Tree View on left panel and page information on right panel
  4. Implement ability to name pages, set divisions, and swap pages in this view
  5. [POSTPONED] If the item has thumbnails present, add QC panel view as an option

Quality Control Update

  1. Remove requirement for existing TIFF images in the folder
  2. Add Tree View left panel from METS Editor Update
  3. Add option for division information to be entered in the tree view, rather than the main QC panel (both options will continue to exist)

UFDC Caching Server – Implement and begin to utilize

UFDC Collection-Level Administrative Tasks

  1. Ability to edit the collection level configuration online
  2. Ability to edit the HTML for home pages, info pages, and browse pages

UFDC Online File Submittal and File Management Update

  1. Add ability to upload an additional file to an existing package (page image or download)
  2. Treat page images specially in the upload section
    1. Group page images by name ( i.e., 00001.tif, 00001.jpg, 00001.jp2, .. )
    2. Only one name provided per a image group
    3. Save these into the appropriate structure map/file sec portion of the METS (rather than as downloads)
  3. Ability to name pages and set divisions online, much like the QC application
  4. Add ability for internal users/collection admins  to remove  an existing file from display

Bib-level Editing in UFDC

  1. Ability to edit the serial hierarchy for all volumes simultaneously, like the UFDC Manager
  2. Ability to add a new volume to an existing bib
  3. Ability to edit bib-level METS file
  4. Auto-fill capability present in Tracking Database

Online Reporting

  1. Add reports function into UFDC for commonly required internal reports
  2. Ability to download reports and browses and searches as Excel, Text, or CSV
  3. Add reporting service which may fulfill any report  with a non-trivial execution time

dLOC Toolkit Update

Tracking / UFDC Merge

Additions/updates/enhancements
- Usage statistics: by holding institution and at item level
--- UFIR stats, adding back to page count stats (missing with move)
- customized display for museum objects (accession number)
- Search by attribution and donor (attribution for OA fund items: Attribution: In the author’s acknowledgements, please include the statement: Publication of this article was funded in part by the University of Florida Open-Access Publishing Fund.)
- MARCXML record feed into Endeca from UFDC
- Ingest of FCLA ETDs?
- SWORD support (bundled or external)
- Updates from server move
- new dLOC Toolkit
- myUFDC/myDLOC - ability to add a volume to an existing record (add a VID to a BIB)
- "Describe" function
- aerials interface
- Metadata Editing - add location with Google Map interface
- UFDC and DLC support
- Support for ESE semantic elements for metadata

Possible Future goals (2010-2011 and beyond), pending resource availability:

  • List of opportunities to increase service and production through automation and with technological supports
  • Born digital ingest split PDFs
  • Born digital ingest, process using JP2 files
  • Display for finding aids / EAD (a preferred display option with the facets on the right by structure--folder, box, collection--and the tag display, could incl. EAD-2-PDF)
  • New zooming image server; include ability to read an ALTO file and highlight the corresponding text regions
  • Text highlighting (requires image server programming; show search terms in context in search results; In search results on the item page, showing the @15 words before and after the search term(s); Using .PRO files to highlight text on the page / Converting .PRO to ALTO)
  • Automated ingest for: IA (BHL example, sample code 1, 2); UF Grad School; GovDocs/FDLP; vendors
  • Static collection, info, browse pages
  • New citation views for museum objects, and for citation managers like Zotero, Refworks, etc
  • Browse by call no.
  • Custom search at hierarchical levels (i.e., newspaper title level for FDNL)
  • Auto-translations once primary terms translated; diacritics
  • Zoning for newspapers: integrating newspaper zoning tool into QC for copyright blur processing; after manual zoning for copyright info, refine to create auto-zoning tool within preQC that "guesses" zones for QC to use; ongoing refinements
  • Flipbook view (Open Library; example; full source; LOC); possible interface mods: simpler subtabs; results page numbers; special for ead-connected items; Implementation for names and authorities (LOC authorities/vocab ; http://www.ubio.org/ ; Geonames ; EPC maps, NYPL example, two, three)
  • GoUFDC absorbing FDA prep (req. UFDC METS reference METS and DAITSS schemas on UF's site to work even if FCLA site down and avoid need to embed DAITSS info/fail if FCLA's schema is down while FDA is accepting files);
  • After PreQCing, load to UFDC and can be seen by staff logged into myUFDC; online QC; once QC done, item live; OCR auto-runs, adding text after item is live
Servers (goals for 2009-2010 only)
server move timeline
- Shared server config documentation, including permissions
- Emergency planning and testing for UFDC restore from tape
- install, configure, and test to ensure operational JPEG 2000 server software
- install, configure, and test to ensure operational OCR software
- move UFDC to CNS servers (db complete 4/8/10)
- move DLC processing SAN to CNS servers
- create processing server for PreQC, PDF split, etc

2009-2010: Completed Digitization Projects

  • FLMNH Bulletins (prior list), spring 2010
  • Cuban imprints pilot project
  • Health Science Center Archives, ingest of 7,000 photos in spring 2010
  • Harn images, for Harn IMLS grant, in spring 2010
  • Africana: Rikli and Berner
  • University Record
  • Historic St. Augustine mini-grant
  • Cuban and Mexican film posters, fall 2009
  • Caribbean newspapers digitized by CRL; 2 drives completed 12/2009
  • Coastal Engineering Reports (346 reports; 37,753 pages), completed 8/2009
  • WID materials for digitization, in copyright to G&E with proposal, submitted 12/2009
  • Aerials mini grant
  • Florida newspapers through 2007
  • Florida Entomologist, spring 2010
  • Florida and the Civil War, spring 2010 set
  • PPD files (DARK); FSU files for FHP grant; UNF files for FHP grant; FAMU FHP files
  • University Archives' Gannon videos (from Carl, DARK archive for now)
  • Sea Grant aerials
  • Journal of Tropical Plant Pathology (49 volumes)
  • Florida House Journal
  • Ephemeral Cities newspapers
  • Florida Architecture journals (majority complete, some still in process)

Last modified: Saturday September 17 2011 lnt