SobekCM : Digital Content Management System
About SobekCM
SobekCM is the software engine which powers the University of Florida Digital Collections (UFDC), Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC), and many other digital repositories.
SobekCM allows users to discover online resources via semantic and full-text searches, as well as a variety of different browse mechanisms. For each digital resource in the repository there are a plethora of display options, which may be selected by an appropriately authenticated use. This repository includes online metadata editing and online submissions in support of institutional repositories.
SobekCM is released as open source software under the GNU GPL license and can be downloaded from the SobekCM Software Download Site.
SobekCM was initially developed at the George A. Smathers Library at the University of Florida by a team led by Mark Sullivan, with ongoing effort spanning several departments. Additional user testing, input, and resources have been contributed from other libraries, universities, and archives around Florida, the Caribbean, and beyond. See the credits for more information.
Community and Open Code Sources
The SobekCM Community is supported by two core groups: the SobekCM Users Group and the SobekCM Developers Group. Each group has an email discussion list for users and potential users of the SobekCM system. Both are great places to get started, report problems, and ask questions:
- SobekCM Users Group: sobekcm-l@lists.ufl.edu
- SobekCM Developers Group: sobekcm-discuss@googlegroups.com
There are two locations available to grab the latest stable, released code, or the last daily build.
- Google Code Site (last released stable version): https://code.google.com/p/sobekcm/
- GitHub (last daily build): https://github.com/SobekCM/SobekCM-Web-Application
Materials on Highlighted Features
See these materials for more on highlighted features:
- SobekCM YouTube Channel
- SobekCM Presentation Slides: Compiled for presentation to the Digital Library Working Group, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London (2013)
- SobekCM Handout and Presentation Slides (2013)
- SobekCM and SobekPH Mobile Services with iPhone Apps, Presentation slides (2010)
- See more on recent highlighted enhancements and presentations and publications
Highlighted Features
Some of the outstanding features of this digital library includes:
- 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
- Google-map based searching or map browsing
- Custom views for items
- Full-screen page turner view
- Sanborn maps
- Image zoom and pan viewing capabilities
- Use of microservices
- Online files maintained in the PairTree microservices format recommended by the California Digital Library for digital curation.
- Customization of collections
- Customized collection pages and supplemental pages
- Customized interfaces (e.g.; dLOC and Matheson Historical Museum)
- Internationalized/localized interfaces in English, Spanish, and French
- Integrated support for OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative or OAI)
- Base URL: http://sobekrepository.org/sobekcm_oai.aspx?
- Example commands:
- Verb: Identify: http://sobekrepository.org/sobekcm_oai.aspx?verb=Identify
- Verb: ListMetadataFormats: http://sobekrepository.org/sobekcm_oai.aspx?verb=ListMetadataFormats
- Verb: ListSets: http://sobekrepository.org/sobekcm_oai.aspx?verb=ListSets
- 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
- 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
- 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