SobekCM (alternately Sobek and Sobek CM) is an

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engine and suite of associated tools for

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and digital repositories for galleries, libraries, archives, museums, colleges, universities, scholarly research projects as with the Digital Humanities, Research Data Collections, and more. The SobekCM software was developed initially at the University of Florida Libraries by Mark V. Sullivan, with much input from UF and collaborative partners, and ongoing development supported by the full team at the UF Libraries and the larger collaborative community. The largest digital repositories powered by SobekCM are the University of Florida Digital Collections (UFDC) and the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC). Within the University of Florida Libraries, Mark Sullivan began developing SobekCM in June 2005. The system went live in April 2006. In September 2011, Florida'
Council of State University Libraries
selected SobekCM to power digital libraries across the state with advanced functionality Development on SobekCM is active and ongoing, accelerated by numerous grants. In April 2012, the

Jean-Marie Derscheid Jean-Marie Eugène Derscheid (May 19, 1901, Sterrebeek – March 13, 1944) was a Belgian zoologist who focused much of his professional interest on Africa. He was a world expert on breeding exotic waterfowl in captivity, authored scientific art ...

collection hosted and supported through SobekCM was part of the

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' Primary Source Award for Access. In March 2012, NEH awarded a grant to th
Historic St. Augustine project
another digital collection powered and hosted with SobekCM. Other major grants awarded from 2012-2013 include: the Florida and Puerto Rico Digital Newspaper Project, funded by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP); Pioneer Days in Florida: Diaries and Letters from Settling the Sunshine State, 1800–1900, funded by NHPRC; Archive of Haitian Religion and Culture, funded by NEH; and Diário de Pernambuco Digital Newspaper Project, funded by the Center for Research Libraries' Latin America Materials Project; and the Panama Canal - Preserving a Legacy, Celebrating a Centennial, Leveraging an Extraordinary Human Achievement, funded by

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. SobekCM is programmed in C# has been released as

under GNU GPL. The SobekCM software can be downloaded from the SobekCM Software Download Site and

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. The site also includes documentation for installing and configuring the SobekCM software.

SobekCM Name

SobekCM is named in part for the Egyptian crocodile god,

Sobek Sobek (also called Sebek or Sobki, cop, Ⲥⲟⲩⲕ, Souk) was an ancient Egyptian deity with a complex and elastic history and nature. He is associated with the Nile crocodile or the West African crocodile and is represented either in its f ...

. SobekCM's name comes in part of the mythical Sobek's role as a collector of lost things, or "the idea that as a crocodile, Sobek is the best suited to collecting items upon the Nile." SobekCM is Sobek Content Management.

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SobekCM Repository Software

SobekCM at the University of FloridaNew College of Florida Digital Collections
powered by SobekCM
University of Florida Digital Collections
powered by SobekCM
Digital Library of the Caribbean
powered by SobekCM
Wolfsonian-FIU Digital Image Catalog
powered by SobekCM
NewspaperCat
a portal and record-only collection powered by SobekCM
Florida & Puerto Rico Digital Newspaper Project
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Florida Digital Newspaper Library The Florida Digital Newspaper Library provides access to the news and history of Florida through local Florida newspapers. The Florida Digital Newspaper Library is supported by the University of Florida's George A. Smathers Libraries and hosted in ...

, powered by SobekCM
Video demonstration from 2011SobekCM Open Source METS Metadata Editor
from the University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries
"Wolfsonian-FIU revamps website, launches digital images catalog" in ''FIU News''
mentions Wolfsonian-FIU's use of SobekCM
SobekCM YouTube Channel
Free institutional repository software Digital library software Archival science University of Florida