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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

All project information below is correct as of 4/9/2010/

Administrative and Operational Goal: Requested Status
Establish and maintain three active digitization production queues   7/09, complete
Continue to automate, streamline, and integrate operations:
Hire and train new staff for the different queues and cross train (8/09: new staff hired)
Automating processes: internal archiving with CNS' NSAM/Tivoli solution
With tape archiving, shifted resources to metadata corr. + specific projects as possible
Ingest IA materials processed by Pres. load & archive workflows as possible
  operational 11/09; resources on AFA Historic Pres. project from AGRSSR priorities
Review and improve workflows as possible
streamlined TOC for select projects
  main ; news ; quality control ; IR ; Ingest
Continue full service approach for digital collections and materials:
(web content / design dev; creation and maintence of help pages, documentation for general use and grant reports; design support for collateral postcards, bookmarks, etc; all displays here)

Copyright research and clearance; metadata creation
ongoing ongoing
Report on progress on digitization templates for AGRSSR

(resources for developing tracking system and reports)
  3/10: capacity production & projected reports maintained here

2/10 meeting
Apply for an LSTA grant for SASC support needs (due March 2010)
[Postponed per other priorities: Apply for an LSTA grant for Florida newspapers (due March 2010)]
  submitted to admin 2/21/10; not moving forward; assisted with Fl&Civil War proposal
Initiate discussions with the University Press of Florida for possible collaboration (update in 09/10 - collaborating, and processing materials)   8/09: UPF OA books in process within IR queue
Collab. with Documents Dept. on projects for all FDLP selectives UF supports as regional, incl. dLOC. Sample digital coll. code, banner, sample text here.

Covering GPO materials for the Panama Canal Zone with UF accepting the lead for these materials within ARL in August 2009, collection
ongoing ongoing

Continue support, training, outreach, presentations, and tours:

Support partners with transfer + ingest of files: Harn; Herbarium; HSC Archives; UF faculty with self-submittal; all UF-internal and external partners; metadata training for UF Libraries staff; dLOC training

Outreach/Promotion
Aug. 7, 2009: sent PDFs for 4 public domain books to Rose Hill Manor Park for their use in tours and programs about school days for children in the past
Sept. 2: UFDC table for the Library Showcase, Library West (Lourdes)
Sept. 8: IR@UF self-submittal tool presentation in DLC
Sept. 21: Panama Canal Museum, showing materials in room 1A
Oct. 2009: IR@UF with Open Access week; Oct 21 is focused on the IR (Dina)
Jan-Feb 2009: IR@UF, three internal trainings for the Libraries

Maintaining + updating registries / harvesters: FDLP Registry ; SouthComb ; LC Sanborn listing ; NSDL (sent EDLOH 8/28/09); OpenDOAR (inc. IESR; Scientific Commons); UF Digital Learning Commons; adding OA journals to DOAJ
- Loading requested UF public domain images to Flickr account for UFDC
- Loading UF public domain videos to the UF Libraries on YouTube
- Creating LibGuides for UFDC collections, including the IR LibGuide

 
Conduct one usability study on UFDC each year   7/09, complete

UFDC & DLC Toolkit (for 2009-2010 and beyond, see UFDC Dev for details)

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

EAC/Authorities
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)

See IR section below for details.
  Nov. 2009: mini grant for prototype project awarded; completion by 11/2010
Refinement of existing tools, Maintenance & Ongoing Support

- Adding usage statistics by holding institution
- Finessing of MARCXML record feed into Endeca from UFDC
- Refining METS/MODS, MARCXML, and DC mappings and feeds
- Creating new citation type views for museum objects, and for citation managers like Zotero, Refworks, etc
- Enhancements to Lucene indexing for UFDC; updates based on usability testing; browse by call no.
- Add custom search at hierarchical levels (i.e., newspaper title level for FDNL)
- UFDC auto-translations once primary terms translated; diacritics
- UFDC, DLC, and dLOC Toolkit support
- Automated ingest for: IA (BHL example, sample code 1, 2); UF Grad School (ETDs); GovDocs/FDLP; vendors
- Static collection, info, browse pages

Possible Future goals (2010-2011 and beyond), pending resource availability:
- Displays: finding aids / EAD (some of the preferred display options are here with the facets on the right by structure--folder, box, collection--and the tag display, could incl. EAD-2-PDF); Slideshows, Treister and others
- 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
- 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
- Born digital ingest split PDFs; auto-create PDFs on UFDC (possibly iText; BHL explanation, example); Z39.50/ZING SRU;COinS support
- Flash flipbook view (Open Library; example; full source; LOC); possible interface mods: simpler subtabs; results page numbers; prev, next in addition to all volumes tab, but only for ead-connected items; Implementation for names and authorities (LOC authorities/vocab ; http://www.ubio.org/ ; Geonames ; EPC maps, NYPL example, two, three)
- Implement new zooming image server based on Kakadu decoder; include ability to read an ALTO file and highlight the corresponding text regions; requires new OCR software
- 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)

UFDC & DLC Tools, Completed 2009-2010
See development pages for details.

  • Self-submittal tool (details on many individual projects completed for this large project): requested 6/09; complete 10/09
  • myUFDC/On-line metadata editing capabilities: requested 7/09; complete 11/09
  • myUFDC bookbag (view existing book bag, add items to book bag; later, add items to folders; from book bag users can email + print; email link to send item perm. link to self/friend; make user's bookbag or a folder public for others to see: requested as part of self-submittal, 6/09; complete 2/24/10
  • iPhone App: minor assistance for SobekPH iPhone App for UFDC developed externally: req. 11/09; complete 10/19
  • New importer needed b/c old tied to Tracking and same failings / inconsistencies as Tracking; Mark built from scratch and released, completed 7/09
  • Quarterly UFDC Usage Statistics: Mark compiles statistics quarterly or more often, completed 7/09
  • Mark enhanced OAI-PMH, adding text as an OAI-PMH format for single item view 8/09; see more here
  • New version of lister because of dire need for portable drives with constant SAN issues; Mark completed 7/09
  • UFDC: aggregate model instead of boxed content, essential for continued growth (completed 2/24/10)
  • UFDC_CM: adding option to add myUFDC/myDLOC users (completed 2/24/10)
Tracking & Importer Related
Reports requested; not possible with Tracking DB and existing resources.
- Inaccurate reports: Archived, but not on UFDC: 11/16 corrected list and corrected list broken out by collections (1/25/10: 4,578 with dark, etc; 6/1/09: 5,737; actual is lower by 2-3,000+ items) and Weekly Production Activity Reports: 10/1-10/7/2009; 9/3/-9/9/2009
Servers (goals for 2009-2010 only)
- 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 and OCR software
- move UFDC to CNS servers (db complete 4/8/10)
- move DLC processing SAN to CNS servers

Servers, completed 2009-2010
- Partioning of DLC SAN to reduce Replistor-related issues (done 8/17/2009)
- Install and config of new UFDC SAN (done 8/21/2009)
- Space alerts (done 1/2010)
- Tivoli for internal archive, done 10/13/2009
- Rebuilding old Greenstone servers as a JPEG2000 server, done 10/13/2009
- FTP server with alias ftp.uflib.ufl.edu and accounts (done 8/21/2009)
Digitization Production Goals
Main Queue: Africana Collections
Rare books, journals, maps, etc. Center for African Studies funding, $5,000
CM: Peter Malanchuk and Dan Reboussin
ongoing Rikli, complete; Berner, majority complete
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
Move from Main into the Newspaper Queue
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)
Earn grant award
ongoing 3/2010: many permissions requested and received, see list.

integrate Carib news into news queue, complete 10/09
dLOC (9/2004 - 9/2009):
9/30/09: Grant ended, but continue to support ongoing collaborative project needs
2009: Completed training video for flatbed scanning, loaded to dLOC and YouTube
  9/2009
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: IA list reordered arb.; req. programmatic supports, DLC implemented BHL app

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

Digitization & Technical
Remain on schedule and on budget
99,690 pages in 30 months
Requires an average of 3,323 pages per month; actual production per month will vary for the letterbooks and photos, which are more time-consuming
OPS Funding is $67,500 ($22,500 per year for 3 years: 2009; 1/2010 - 12/31/2010; 1/2011 - 11/2011)

Enable cross-searching with the Everglades Digital Library with FIU; collaborative decision to join move EDL to SobekCM infrastructure for optimal ease of use and growth
2009: Established EDLG collection group with EDL interface
8/09: Loaded FIU EDL Founders collection, creating subcollection page
9/09: Created subcollection page for EDL Oral Histories; loaded Tale of Two Women EDL oral history collection; processing metadata updates for SPOHP EDL Oral Histories
10/09: Loading Marshall, Hole-in-the-Donut, Dineen, and Educational collections
11/09: Migrating FIU and UF EDL-FEOL materials
Contextual materials (in process, ongoing for the project; all notes online here)
Sharing all documentation, including workflow and technical specifications
Journal and newsletter articles with information about methodology and outcomes
Conference presentations with information about methodology and outcomes
Complete any missing issues of the Everglades Journal

Web page req:
- Historical timeline
- Lesson plans
- Graphics
- Guide to primary sources and other secondary reading materials
- Publicity materials req:
-- Press releases
-- Public presentations
-- Brochures and other promotional giveaways 

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]
  4/1/2010: 12 mo, 39,876 pages req.

3/24: 42,503 pages
3/1/10: 11mo, 36,520 pages req.

2/24/10: 38,014 complete

2/1/10: 10 mo, 33,230 pages req.

1/1/10: 9 mo, 29,907 pages req.;

12/1/09: 8 mo, 26,584 pages req.; 28,700 pages

11/18/09: 7.5 months, 27,273 pages

10/29/09: 7 months and 26,557 pages online, 23,261 req.

10/22/09: 7 mo; 26304 pgs online; 23261 req.

9/30/09: 6 mo; 22776 pages online
9/16/09: 19,759 pages online
8/28/09: Submitted EDLOH to NSDL for federated searching
8/14/09: 4.5 mo; 14,329 pages (16,080 req. end of Aug. per page time differences)
8/09: Migrated all of FIU's EDL materials into EDL on UFDC (other than FEOL)
7/09: 3.25 months and 11,791 pages online
First report due 7/31: completed on time
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
Install new servers, configure, and make operational

2/2010 note: many of the FDOT aerials are lower-res duplicates of other files

Process:
- Jennifer will select, prepare, and track the aerials
- Joe will hire and supervise GIS technicians to georectify the photos and create geospatial metadata
- DLC will hire and train staff to digitize project components above
- Mark and Joe will pass database information back and forth to enhance all local data stores with links and GIS information
- DLC/Mark: will develop a user-friendly map interface with Google Map API
- IT will arrange and administer CNS servers
- DLC will 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 (7.49/hr average)
(5 Scan Techs for 15 hrs/wk for 15wks@ 7.25/hr) 1,125 hours and $8,156
(1 QC Tech for 225 hours @ 8.30/hr): 225 hours and $1,868
(1 Digital Camera Operator for 40hrs@ $10/hr): 40 hours and $400

Reports due April 1, 2010 and November 1, 2010 and report format online
Make JPEG2000 aerial images available as downloads
Finish conversion of 5,000 remaining images from prior grants to bring total to 84,000
Earn grant award
  7/10, interface due

4/10: interface due

Progress:
2/24/10: 11,595 scanned and loaded; de-duping FDOT aerials; assessment of prior scans for archival files to load or rescan in process 10/23/09: 3,198 aerials scanned, need programming updates before loading

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
  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

- Meet all goals
-16 newspapers (15 are born digital, 1 is historic from the Panama Canal Zone)
- Request and obtain permissions from publishers
- Derive records from any available sources
- Harvest, ingest, and process files
- 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; Goals:
- Maintain born digital workflow
- Continue to make progress on FLAG, FLMNH, and other legacy projects
- Maintain workflow for born digital serials and UF Publications chosen by selectors
- Maintain list of serials and UF Publications by College (updated as part of the workflow for materials)
- Support Open Access by digitizing, processing, providing training for:
--- UF materials as chosen by selectors
--- Florida Anthropologist; Florida/Caribbean Architect; Jamaica Journal; Sargasso (all after 2 years old)
--- Self-submitted materials
--- Support Open Access by assisting to plan Open Access week, and presenting for IR day during Open Access week (already planned and in process)
- University Press of Florida materials
--- Permissions req. may be slow, work to ensure positive workflows for support
--- Wordmarks for Orange Grove and UPF on all items
--- Feed to Orange Grove will need testing and review
--- Design custom UPF interface
- Meet all goals for the EAC/UF Institutional History Project mini grant (proposal)

- ETDs:
--- Work with Graduate Editorial office to send all open ETDs to UFDC. Pursue after the 'projects in lieu of a thesis' and self-submitted materials for the IR are stable/processing smoothly (expected late 2010 or 2011).
8/09, completed moving UF related materials from main queue to here

Create promotional and support materials for IR: new banner for collection, postcard, have materials use the shorter IR url: www.uflib.ufl.edu/ir (which should be active 8/18/09)
 
IR: Project in Lieu of Theses
Increase to three departments that submit PILO to submit electronically.
Depts. contributing PILOs listed here

Expected in the next year:
CFA: 20
DCP: 20-30
DI: 12-30 depending on many factors
Journalism: 4
2/24/2010: 23 completed (program area began fall 2009) 2010-2011: 56-84 expected
IR: Encoded Archival Context, EAC, Mini-Grant (proposal)

Funding: Programmer $3,600 and student workers

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.
  Nov. 2009: mini grant for prototype project awarded; completion by 11/2010

Mar. 2011: LSTA grant due
IR: FLMNH Bulletins
List of all bulletins here.

4 remaining volumes:

  1. Volume 29 (1983-4): Issue 6 (UF00099068)
    Paul W. Sykes, Jr. The range of the snail kite and its history in Florida. 6:211-264.
  2. Vol 32: Issue 3
    Richard C. Hulbert, Jr. Calippus and Protohippus (Mammalia, Perissodactyla, Equidae) from the Miocene (Barstovian-early Hemphillian of the Gulf Coastal Plain. 3:220-340.
  3. Volume 33 (1988): Issue 5
    Richard C. Hulbert, Jr. Cormohipparion and Hipparion (Mammalia, Perissodactyla, Equidae) from the Late Neogene of Florida. 5:229-338
  4. Vol 46: Issue 3
    Thompson, F.G. 2006. Some landsnails of the genus Humboldtiana from Chihuahua and western Texas. 3:61-98.
3/24/2010: 25 issues remaining

3/16/10: 30 issues remaining; received all but 5 from FLMNH today; 25 will be queued for completion

2/2010: waiting to hear from FLMNH about copies; otherwise, will borrow copies from MSL that cannot be disbound

Museum & Special Projects Goals:

  • Online and physical exhibits: listed here
  • Training and Support
  • Partner training listed under admin section
  • 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
   
WID: Report on work done to date (Laurie)   12/18/09, submitted
Bryant: Assist with film ingest
2/10: pending digital file availability
 
Civil War Materials
- Special Collections materials, 120 items for spring 2010
- "Intellectual Underpinnings of the American Civil War," collab. ASERL Project
- LSTA grant in development, to add supporting pages and materials, transcriptions and digitization (2/2010, grant due 3/15/2010, PI Jim Cusick)
  2/10: 2010 spring set of materials complete
Continue supporting new projects, proposed grant projects, and smaller projects:

- Cuban imprints (8 volumes for sample for prototype collection: Jan. 2010, books in DLC; 2/10, complete)
   

Flagler Architectural Drawings (grant proposal)
24 months
Initial timeline: 1/2010-12/2011; delayed per delay in receipt of funding. New ETA for digitization start: 9/1/2010 (as of 3/4/2010).

New timeline: 7/2010-6/2012 (24 months)

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)

  3/1/2010: anticipated start, delayed per receipt of funding, new ETA, 9/1/2010

2009, proposal submitted
Dec. 2009: grant awarded
Baldwin Phase II materials

4/9/10: all files from cd loaded: 586color pages only; 85 remain; 6070 online
3/29/10: 1307 remain
2/15/10: 1383 remain
12/19/09: 1422 remain
7/09: 1,706 remain (for total estimate of 7,339)
  4/9/10: 85 remain
Cuban and Mexican film posters, initial project complete, now program ongoing with new posters

Antique Maps

University Archives videos

Harn slides (2/24/10, need bulk metadata updates)

Herbarium Specimens
- February 2010: contacted herbarium for materials, not ready, will check in April
for ongoing programs 2/2010: up-to-date

Florida Geological Survey

7/09-3/10: 10,113 pages loaded

Complete list of remaining FGS items

  4/9: 145 items

3/24: 195 items left
3/1/10: 218 items left

2/10: 15 page list of remaining items

10/09: working through 46 page list
Baldwin Phase IV (8/2010-8/2012); not awarded
Project was to cover 2,400 volumes in 2 years. Cost share (year one total 2.01 FTE; year two, 1.92); $38,752 in OPS prposed for grant funding (Laurie .10 FTE; Randall .41 FTE (year one) and .32 FTE (year two); Lourdes .30 FTE; Jane .50 FTE; Nelda .20 FTE; Matt .20 FTE; Traveler .30 FTE)
  3/24: not awarded

8/09: proposal done
Applying Data Structure Techniques and Machine Learning-Natural Language Processing to Humanities Collections (Jaqi linguistics), non-library proposal that would utilize and inform UFDC (notification 12/09)
  4/10, not awarded
8/09, proposal done

Legacy items & corrections

- Files on CD/DVD
- Yulee: correct metadata for all 2,400 items (2/24/10: existing available metadata updates loading)

   
Samuel Proctor Oral Histories:
- all that were DARK and burned to DVD need to be pulled, copyright status changed to permissions granted per SPOHP, and loaded
- ensuring new files are consistently ingested (2/24/10: IR Coord training on self-submittal for new files; drive with 2004-2010 files expected
   
University Archives photographs (Matt)
12/09, to begin with 100 photos a month
2/24/10: ingest of HSC Archive photos complete
  2/10, on hold
10/09, met and set proj. param. + timeline
Historic Preservation Documents (Matt)
Project: 1,000 items (AFA inventory/citations), details

- locate and compile author info
- request permissions
- digitize, load, archive
  2/16/10: collection created; 13 items online

11/09, requesting permissions
Army Map Sets
@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 tracking
  1/2010: 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, ETD Group
2009 Dina Benson, Open Access Week Planning Group
2009-2010 Laurie Taylor, Open Access Group
2009- Laurie Taylor, AGRSSR
2008- DISC with DISC 2009 report on digitization projects
   
Trainings Attended & Cross-Trainings
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)
   

2009-2010: Completed Digitization Projects

  • Cuban imprints pilot project
  • Africana: Rikli and Berner (all except 1 scrapbook, which awaits metadata for loading)
  • University Record
  • Historic St. Augustine mini-grant
  • 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)
  • Aerials mini grant
  • Sea Grant aerials
  • Journal of Tropical Plant Pathology (49 volumes)
  • Florida House Journal
  • Latin American film posters, mini-grant for all holdings at time, now ongoing with new
  • Ephemeral Cities newspapers
  • Retro FLMNH Bulletins that were archived
  • Caribbean newspapers digitized by CRL; 2 drives completed 12/09
  • Coastal Engineering Reports (346 reports; 37,753 pages)
  • WID materials for digitization
  • Florida Architecture journals (many complete, some still in process)

Last modified: Saturday September 17 2011 lnt