The University of Florida Digital Collections (UFDC) are supported by the University of Florida Digital Library Center in the

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at the

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. 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, 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

The majority of materials are freely and openly accessible (

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) and provide full text searchability. In UFDC, all items can be text searched simultaneously or certain collections can be selected for a

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. 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 The Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature in the Department of Special and Area Studies Collections at the University of Florida's George A. Smathers Libraries contains more than 130,000 books and serials published in Great Britain a ...

, and other materials.

Technologies, Statistics, and Findability

The UF Digital Collections are powered by the open source

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software engine and suite of associated tools. The associated tools include online user tools and standalone software for use in digitizing and curating

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materials. The online system is deployed with

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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. Artifacts with multiple photos from multiple angles can be seen in motion, rotating in an

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video view, 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

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

References

External links

University of Florida Digital Collections (UFDC)
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, the technology of the University of Florida Digital Collections and the

University of Florida Digital Library Center

George A. Smathers Libraries

Link to all of UF's libraries

Selected List of Collections

See all collections in UFDC
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University of Florida Baldwin Library The Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature in the Department of Special and Area Studies Collections at the University of Florida's George A. Smathers Libraries contains more than 130,000 books and serials published in Great Britain a ...

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Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature Digital Collection
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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 ...

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Florida Digital Newspaper Library
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Digital Library of the Caribbean
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Florida and Puerto Rico Digital Newspaper Project (UFNDNP)Florida AerialsPioneer Days in Florida
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University of Florida Panama and the Canal Collection The University of Florida Panama and the Canal Collection includes materials from the University of Florida Libraries' Government Documents Department, the UF Libraries' Latin American Collection, the UF Libraries' Map & Imagery Library, and other ...

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Panama and the Canal Digital Collection
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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 ...

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Jean-Marie Derscheid Digital CollectionAfrican American CollectionsAfricana Digital CollectionsFlorida Architecture & Landscape Design Digital CollectionAsian Digital CollectionsComics Digital CollectionParkman Dexter Howe Library Digital CollectionEducation Module Digital CollectionFlorida Cities Digital CollectionOral History Digital Collections
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Samuel Proctor Oral History Program The Samuel Proctor Oral History Program (SPOHP) is the official oral history program at the University of Florida. With over 6,500 interviews and more than 150,000 pages of transcribed material, it is one of the premier oral history programs in ...

and Matheson Museum
Florida History and Heritage Digital CollectionsHistoric Newspaper Catalog Record CollectionFlorida Law Digital CollectionFlorida Photographs Digital CollectionsOral Histories Digital CollectionFood and Agricultural Sciences Digital CollectionInternational Farming Systems CollectionEuropean Digital CollectionsGraphic Art Digital CollectionJaqi Languages Digital CollectionJudaica Digital CollectionsNatural Sciences Digital CollectionOpen Stacks ProjectPerforming Arts Digital CollectionPsychological Study of the Arts Digital CollectionRadical Women in Gainesville Digital CollectionRossica Digital CollectionSanborn Maps Digital CollectionSciences and Technologies Digital CollectionSouth American Digital CollectionsSpanish Borderlands Digital CollectionsSouthwest Florida Library Network (SWFLN) Digital CollectionsThe Floridians Digital CollectionTheology Digital CollectionHealth Science Archives Photographs CollectionHerbarium Specimens Digital CollectionUniversity of Florida Institutional RepositoryWetlands Digital CollectionWomen in Development Digital CollectionWorld Maps Digital CollectionUnearthing St. Augustine's Colonial Heritage

Preservation and Access

Technologies, Statistics, and Findability

References

External links

Selected List of Collections

See also