University of Florida Digital Collections

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| foundation = April 2006

| location = Gainesville, Florida, United States

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| parent = George A. Smathers Libraries

| homepage = [https://ufdc.ufl.edu/ ufdc.ufl.edu/]

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The University of Florida Digital Collections (UFDC) are supported by the University of Florida Digital Library Center in the George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida. The University of Florida Digital Collections (UFDC) comprise a constantly growing collection of digital resources from the University of Florida's library collections as well as partner institutions. Founded in April 2006,See [https://web.archive.org/web/20060514023237/http://news.ufl.edu/2006/04/21/ufdc/ the opening announcement for the University of Florida Digital Collections]. UFDC has added over 622,114 items - books, newspapers, oral histories, videos, photos, data sets, and more - with over 14 million pages.

Preservation and Access

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The majority of materials are freely and openly accessible (Open Access) and provide full text searchability. In UFDC, all items can be text searched simultaneously or certain collections can be selected for a faceted search. Because UFDC grew out of the efforts of the University of Florida Libraries' Preservation Department, all items are scanned at preservation quality and all are digitally preserved with redundant backups. The page images are particularly important for the preservation of artifactually significant materials such as maps, artifacts, illustrated children's literature from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, and other materials.

Technologies, Statistics, and Findability

The UF Digital Collections are powered by the open source SobekCM software engine and suite of associated tools. The associated tools include online user tools and standalone software for use in digitizing and curating born digital materials. The online system is deployed with Solr and other technologies for optimal functionality.

Because of the highly visual nature of so many items, the pages are displayed as zoomable images (through a JPG2000 server) and all can be browsed as thumbnails at the item and the collection level.Viewing and browsing are explained on the Help pages: [http://ufdc.ufl.edu/ufdchelp http://ufdc.ufl.edu/ufdchelp]. Artifacts with multiple photos from multiple angles can be seen in motion, rotating in an Adobe Flash video view,[http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00083044/00001 "Female Twin Figure (ere ibeji) Yoruba people" from the African Arts Collection] and items can be searched by their geographic information (city, county, state, latitude and longitude) or viewed on a map through UFDC's use of the Google Maps API.[http://www.dloc.com/CA00500007/00001/GM "Citadelle HENRI christophe"] from the Digital Library of the Caribbean

UFDC includes books, articles, newspapers, photos, videos, audio, and more. As of June 2019, the collections had grown to over 14 million pages. UFDC's statistics page maintains a running tally of loaded items broken down by collection: [http://ufdc.ufl.edu/stats/ http://ufdc.ufl.edu/stats/].

Along with loading new items regularly, UFDC is optimized for search engine findability on an ongoing basis.

References

External links

[http://ufdc.ufl.edu/ University of Florida Digital Collections (UFDC)]
SobekCM, the technology of the University of Florida Digital Collections and the Digital Library of the Caribbean
[http://digital.uflib.ufl.edu/ University of Florida Digital Library Center]
[http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/ George A. Smathers Libraries]
[http://www.ufl.edu/libraries Link to all of UF's libraries] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011002133/http://www.ufl.edu/libraries/ |date=2007-10-11 }}

=Selected List of Collections=

[https://ufdc.ufl.edu/l/tree See all collections in UFDC]
University of Florida Baldwin Library and the [http://ufdc.ufl.edu/baldwin Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature Digital Collection]
Florida Digital Newspaper Library and [http://ufdc.ufl.edu/newspapers Florida Digital Newspaper Library]
Digital Library of the Caribbean and [http://www.dloc.com/ Digital Library of the Caribbean], a collaborative digital library where UF is the technical host partner
[http://ufdc.ufl.edu/ufndnp Florida and Puerto Rico Digital Newspaper Project (UFNDNP)]
[http://ufdc.ufl.edu/aerials Florida Aerials]
[http://UFDC.ufl.edu/pioneerdays Pioneer Days in Florida]
University of Florida Panama and the Canal Collection and the [http://ufdc.ufl.edu/pcm Panama and the Canal Digital Collection]
Jean-Marie Derscheid for the [http://ufdc.ufl.edu/derscheid Jean-Marie Derscheid Digital Collection]
[http://ufdc.ufl.edu/flaac African American Collections]
[http://ufdc.ufl.edu/africa1 Africana Digital Collections]
[http://ufdc.ufl.edu/fald Florida Architecture & Landscape Design Digital Collection]
[http://ufdc.ufl.edu/asia1 Asian Digital Collections]
[http://ufdc.ufl.edu/punch Comics Digital Collection]
[http://ufdc.ufl.edu/howe1 Parkman Dexter Howe Library Digital Collection]
[http://ufdc.ufl.edu/edmod1 Education Module Digital Collection]
[http://ufdc.ufl.edu/flcity Florida Cities Digital Collection]
[http://ufdc.ufl.edu/oral Oral History Digital Collections] from the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program and Matheson Museum
[http://ufdc.ufl.edu/fhpc Florida History and Heritage Digital Collections]
[http://ufdc.ufl.edu/hnccoll Historic Newspaper Catalog Record Collection]
[http://ufdc.ufl.edu/flaw1 Florida Law Digital Collection]
[http://ufdc.ufl.edu/foto1 Florida Photographs Digital Collections]
[http://ufdc.ufl.edu/oh2 Oral Histories Digital Collection]
[http://ufdc.ufl.edu/fao1 Food and Agricultural Sciences Digital Collection]
[http://ufdc.ufl.edu/ifsa International Farming Systems Collection]
[http://ufdc.ufl.edu/euro1 European Digital Collections]
[http://ufdc.ufl.edu/gart1 Graphic Art Digital Collection]
[http://ufdc.ufl.edu/jaqi Jaqi Languages Digital Collection]
[http://ufdc.ufl.edu/jud1 Judaica Digital Collections]
[http://ufdc.ufl.edu/nat Natural Sciences Digital Collection]
[http://ufdc.ufl.edu/ospre Open Stacks Project]
[http://ufdc.ufl.edu/part1 Performing Arts Digital Collection]
[http://ufdc.ufl.edu/psa1 Psychological Study of the Arts Digital Collection]
[http://ufdc.ufl.edu/rwg Radical Women in Gainesville Digital Collection]
[http://ufdc.ufl.edu/ros1 Rossica Digital Collection]
[http://ufdc.ufl.edu/sanborn Sanborn Maps Digital Collection]
[http://ufdc.ufl.edu/fast1 Sciences and Technologies Digital Collection]
[http://ufdc.ufl.edu/dlosa1 South American Digital Collections]
[http://ufdc.ufl.edu/esbnd Spanish Borderlands Digital Collections]
[http://ufdc.ufl.edu/swfln Southwest Florida Library Network (SWFLN) Digital Collections]
[http://ufdc.ufl.edu/gfl The Floridians Digital Collection]
[http://ufdc.ufl.edu/theo1 Theology Digital Collection]
[http://ufdc.ufl.edu/hsca Health Science Archives Photographs Collection]
[http://ufdc.ufl.edu/ufherb Herbarium Specimens Digital Collection]
[http://ufdc.ufl.edu/ufir University of Florida Institutional Repository]
[http://ufdc.ufl.edu/wet1 Wetlands Digital Collection]
[http://ufdc.ufl.edu/wid Women in Development Digital Collection]
[http://ufdc.ufl.edu/map1 World Maps Digital Collection]
[http://ufdc.ufl.edu/usach Unearthing St. Augustine's Colonial Heritage]