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
Digital Library Center: Achievement on Department Goals for 2009-2010
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
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| 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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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:
Project in Lieu of Theses
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| 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. |
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Museum & Special Projects Goals:
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Bryant: Assist with film ingest 4/10: pending digital file availability |
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Flagler Architectural Drawings (grant proposal) |
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Retrospective projects
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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Next UFDC Update (updated 2/25/10)
UFDC Search Update ( Aerials Grant )
METS Editor Update
Quality Control Update
UFDC Caching Server – Implement and begin to utilize UFDC Collection-Level Administrative Tasks
UFDC Online File Submittal and File Management Update
Bib-level Editing in UFDC
Online Reporting
dLOC Toolkit Update |
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Additions/updates/enhancements Possible Future goals (2010-2011 and beyond), pending resource availability:
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| 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 |
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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)
- Florida/Caribbean Architect (27 volumes)
- Florida Architect (239 volumes; still need to load 1978-1980 for 315 total)
- FAA bulletin (63 volumes complete)
- Bulletin of the Florida Association of Architects (4 volumes complete)
Last modified: Saturday September 17 2011 lnt








