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Below is a list of the recent publications, enhancements, and highlights. For more information, please see the full release history and:

June 2015

"Workshop on Collaborative Continuing Education Opportunities with the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC)" at ACURIL

May 2015

Caribbean Studies Association Conference, presentations on the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC)

April 2015

April 24: THATCamp-Gainesville 2015, with many presentations and discussions from SobekCM Users and Developers

April 17: SobekCM Advisory Board for Florida and the Caribbean, first meeting

April 10: Presentation on Digital Humanities and Data at New College of Florida by Laurie Taylor, and facilitated discussion of statewide DPLA Service Hub by Chelsea Dinsmore

April 4: SobekCM 4.8.6 installed for all UF-hosted instances

March 2015

MassMine NEH DH Start-up Grant awarded

TRAC activities ongoing

March 27: "Digital Libraries & Digital Scholarship" presentation by Laurie Taylor at the University of North Texas

February 2015

Feb. 27-28, 2015: Florida Digital Humanities Consortium meeting and THATCamp-Florida 2015.

Feb. 26: "Understanding Graduate Research Production in the Digital Age: Open Access, Electronic Dissertations, and Public Humanities, Oh My!" Presentation by Sophia Acord and Laurie Taylor

Feb. 9: SobekCM 4.07 released with many updates: https://github.com/MarkVSullivan/SobekCM-Web-Application

January 2015

SobekCM Community Framework Draft released, Jan. 27, 2015.

Roberts, Judith and Missy Clapp. "Assessment." UF Digital Humanities Library Group Training Session. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida, Jan. 14, 2015.

December 2014

Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) at The Caribbean Digital/a small axe event; dLOC presentation and workshop focused on teaching, digital publishing, and digital scholarship with dLOC, on Dec. 4 (part of 12/4-12/5/2014 event). For related information, see the dLOC Scholar Update for Summer 2014.

Santamaría-Wheeler, Lourdes. "Designing Banners for Digital Collections." UF Digital Collections and SobekCM Training Session. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida, Dec. 2, 2014.

November 2014

Nov. 18: SobekCM's SMaRT Tool: new version released: https://sobekrepository.org/software/smartufdc/

Dinsmore, Chelsea. "Metadata." UF Digital Collections and SobekCM Training Session. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida, Nov. 19, 2014.

Bauman, Syd. "TEI." UF Digital Humanities Library Group Training Session, and UF Digital Collections and SobekCM Training Session using the Grimm Collection. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida, Nov. 3, 2014.

October 2014

UNT + UF TRAC Project Teams: Ongoing updates to documentation; see all publicly available documentation developed for TRAC (much in draft) and TRAC project-specific documentation from UF.

Rosenberg, Leah R. and Laurie N. Taylor. "dLOC and the Digital Humanities (DH)." Diasporic Literary Archives: Diaspora and the Digital Workshop. New Haven, CT: Yale University, Oct. 23-24, 2014.

Phillips, Mark; Taylor, Laurie N.; Dinsmore, Chelsea; Yellapantula, Suchitra. "Piloting a Peer-to-Peer PRocess for Becoming a Trusted Digital Repository." Digital Library Federation Forum. Atlanta, GA: Oct. 27-29, 2014.

September 2014

New SobekCM release with full embargo support.

Training on SobekCM: IR@UF (Sept. 15) and SobekCM Curator Tools (Sept. 17) as part of the year-long UF Digital Humanities Library Group (DHLG) Developing Librarian Training Pilot Program.

  • September 2014
    • Mark Sullivan & Christy Shorey. "New Workflows and Tools for ETD Support at the University of Florida"USETDA Conference, Orlando, FL: Sept. 24-26, 2014. Presentation slides.
    • Laurie N. Taylor. Keynote, USETDA Conference, Orlando, FL: Sept. 25, 2014. Presentation Slides.

August 2014

Alex Gil, Kick-off presentations, meetings, and trainings, for year-long UF Digital Humanities Library Group (DHLG) Developing Librarian Training Pilot Program, Aug. 12, 2014.

July 2014

June 2014

April 2014

  • THATCamp-Gainesville Presentations, Workshops, and Trainings (April 24-25, 2014)
  • Sullivan, Mark V. dLOC Training in Haiti. (April 8-11, 2014)
  • Taylor, Laurie N. Various Postings. Digital Humanities Day 2014

March 2014

February 2014

January 2014

  • January 22: Presentation by Mark Sullivan on the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) at the University of the Virgin Islands (Jan. 22, 2014)
    • From the news article in the St. Thomas Source:
      University of the Virgin Islands will host a presentation on “The Digital Library of the Caribbean” (dLOC) by Mark Sullivan at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 22, at in the St. Thomas Ralph Paiewonsky Library. The digital library is a digitization cooperative providing free and open access to materials from and about the Caribbean. The cooperative includes 35+ partners contributing resources and over two million pages of content. The dLOC unites heritage organizations, researchers and educators to help archive and preserve materials which would otherwise be largely inaccessible. 
      Sullivan is the Digital Curation Director at the University of Florida and the software developer of SOBEKCM : DIGITAL CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM. He is also the lead trainer for the dLOC project. Learn more about dLOC at http://www.dloc.com/ 
      Those who are interested in how their organizations can participate in digitalizing the Caribbean’s cultural, historical and research materials currently held in archives, libraries and private collections should attend.  For more information about this event, contact: Ashley Till at 693.1585 orashley.till@uvi.edu or Annice Canton at 244-9823 or Acanton@live.uvi.edu.
  • January 13-15:
    • Coordinators Mark Sullivan and John Nemmers for presentations, workshops, and facilitated meetings on regional, institutional, and topical collaboration (Miami, Florida, January 13-17)
  • SobekCM version 4.0 alpha released (short write up on SobekCM support for SEO and linked data with schema.org microdata and static pages)

December 2013

November-December 2013

Sullivan, Mark V., John Nemmers, and Laurie N. Taylor. "Training Series: Sobek / SobekCM for Curators and Collection Managers (detailed overview: https://sobekrepository.org/AA00019186/00001/pdf): Traing One-Four" live at UF and webinars. Nov. 14-Dec. 19, 2013. Webinar recordings on the SobekCM YouTube Channel.

Training One: Introduction to SobekCM’s capabilities (John Nemmers)

Training Two: Resource and Metadata Submission and Editing (Mark Sullivan)

Training Three: QC Online Tool and Leveraging the Hierarchical Organization of Digital Resources (Mark Sullivan and John Nemmers)

Training Four: Managing Your Collection – Curator Tools (Mark Sullivan and Laurie Taylor)

Sullivan, Mark V. "Unearthing St. Augustine" at GIS Day 2013, UF: Nov. 20, 2013.

 

Wooldridge, Brooke, Laurie N. Taylor, Judith C. Russell, and Lillian Guerra. "Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC)." Workshop and Conference Presentation. THATCamp Caribe 2, Havana, Cuba: Nov. 3-7, 2014. http://www.dloc.com/AA00017957/00001/pdf and http://caribbean2013.thatcamp.org/2013/10/10/digital-library-of-the-caribbean-dloc-biblioteca-digital-del-caribe-dloc/

October 2013

September 2013

  • Schema.org microdata implemented along with support for COINS and UnAPI for citations
  • Hover-over on JPEG now includes text tip to click for zoomable
  • Header, nav, and footer for Item viewers now in HTML5
  • GovDocs template
  • Many presentations (Baldwin virtual tour; Ethnic News presentation; GovDocs; etc.)
  • Classes with dLOC and Sobek-supported digital collections
    • Amherst, UF, and University of Miami DOCC (decentralized online collaborative course), Panama Silver, Asian Gold
    • FIU and Digital Humanities
  • Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs):
    • Thousands recently loaded from prior system/processes, with some missing identified to be loaded soon
    • Undergraduate Honors Theses, all existing are in process for ingest, and new will load directly (or DARK as applicable)
    • All in the UFETD Digital Collection
  • Small (or so-called "dinky") databases being identified, with migration to Sobek as appropriate, including the Alligator Index
  • New Sobek-powered libraries up and underway: New College; Coral Gables; FIU; USF; Gulf Coast
  • NDNP grant awared and oral history grant, see publications for links to press releases

August 2013

July 2013

  • Demonstration of the new SobekCM mapping tools at the Unearthing St. Augustine Project Meeting (July 12)
  • Promoting the Harn Museum using SobekCM for open GLAM data: http://museum-api.pbworks.com/w/page/21933420/Museum%C2%A0APIs
  • Interface design update (July 11)
  • New METS Editor
    The new version (1.1.0) has been released of the METS Editor and can be downloaded here: https://sobekrepository.org/software/mets
    • This new version includes the following changes and bug fixes:
    • Corrected issue with the slash being the wrong way for files which appear in subfolders in the fileSec ( i.e., "xlink:href="106_105\01\105_01-01.tif" is now correctly "xlink:href="106_105/01/105_01-01.tif" )
    • Corrected the mapping of genre when importing from spreadsheets. Was a genre SUBJECT term, rather than a top-level genre element
    • Corrected issue which prevented saving to Microsoft Excel files after batch METS file creation
    • Updated MARC21 reading/writing libraries to latest code, which is much more resilient when something unexpected occurs
    • Added the following new mappings to the spreadsheet importer
      • Alternate Title (Language)
      • Classification
      • Classification (Authority)
      • Creator (Dates)
      • Creator (Family Name)
      • Creator (Given Name)
      • Creator (Role)
      • Genre (Authority)
      • Identifier (Type)
      • Related URL (Label)
      • Related URL (Link)
      • Related URL (Note)
      • Subject Keyword (Authority)
      • Title (Language)
      • Viewer (for use with SobekCM repositories only)
      • Webskin (for use with SobekCM repositories only)
    • Updated the code surrounding projects (.pmets) as default metadata so it now works correctly.
    • Updated the SobekCM Resource Object at the core of this application to include all the recent enhancements and modifications for the SobekCM web repository

June 2013

  • Updates coming soon:
    • Online QC, in beta in May 2013
    • New software for JP2 & JPG
    • Unearthing St. Augustine project work (map placement, EAD enhancements, searching by date: date facets by decade, year, and date)
    • Enhanced TEI display
    • Data ingest in process for ACE/LOMAX and Duke

Archived Enhancement List Information

For older updates, see the full archived listing through November 2013.