SobekCM News
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: http://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.
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
- March 4:
- March 12:
- March 12-21:
February 2014
- Feb. 13:
- Feb. 15-16:
- Feb. 18:
- Feb. 25
- SobekCM 4.0 update, with new search functionality for removing search terms after a search. For instance, with this search (http://sobekrepository.org/juv/results/?t=frogs,%22England%22,%22fairy+tales%22,%22Children%22&f=ZZ,SP,GE,TO), search terms are displayed at the top of the page with the search type (Your search of Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature for 'frogs' anywhere and 'England' in spatial coverage and "fairy tales" in genre and 'Children' in subject keyword resulted in 3 matching records.). Then, users can select to remove a search term to update and expand the results with any new items for the updated terms. This functionality is much like the search facets, with these offering opportunities to expand instead of narrowing the search results.
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
- Multi-file uploads with progress bars
- SobekCM Training Series for Curators and Collection Managers, Training Four: Managing Your Collection – Curator Tools (Mark Sullivan and Laurie Taylor)
- LIVE – Thursday, December 12th, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM, Library West 211
- WEBINARS
November-December 2013
Sullivan, Mark V., John Nemmers, and Laurie N. Taylor. "Training Series: Sobek / SobekCM for Curators and Collection Managers (detailed overview: http://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)
- LIVE – Thursday, November 14th, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM, Library West 211
- WEBINARS (Webinar recordings will be posted once available):
Training Two: Resource and Metadata Submission and Editing (Mark Sullivan)
- LIVE – Thursday, November 21st, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM, Library West 211
- WEBINARS ( Webinar recordings will be posted once available )
Training Three: QC Online Tool and Leveraging the Hierarchical Organization of Digital Resources (Mark Sullivan and John Nemmers)
- LIVE – Tuesday, December 3rd, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM, Library West 211
- WEBINARS ( Webinar recordings will be posted once available )
Training Four: Managing Your Collection – Curator Tools (Mark Sullivan and Laurie Taylor)
- LIVE – Thursday, December 12th, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM, Library West 211
- WEBINARS ( Webinar recordings will be posted once available )
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
- Dataset support in SobekCM Overview and see Data Set Collections
- More guides added to "UF Libraries : Digital Collection Development & Management Resources"
- Planning upcoming trainings on Sobek for Curators (possible dates on 11/14 and 11/21):
- Sobek for Curators, Training One: Introduction to SobekCM’s capabilities
- Sobek for Curators, Training Two: Metadata Editing
- Sobek for Curators, Training Three: QC online
- Overall, interface, what QC online does
- Specific frequent-needs (e.g., selecting a main thumbnail)
- Use case: adding a page to a book where it was missed
- Use case: processing a small item
- Tracking production overall: curator tools with items stats and status breakdown
- Sobek for Curators, Training Four: Curator Tools
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: http://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.
