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The Digital Library of the
Caribbean
Co
An
nternationa
aborative Virtua
Library
By Kyle Rimkus (Florida
international University) and Erich
Kesse
(Un
ive
rsity of Florida)
Presented at the 2007 Caribbean Digital Libraries Workshop, Port of
Spain, Trinidad
dLOC
* Website available
at httD://www.dloc.com
* Site, digitization manual,
and project
software all freely accessible in English,
French
, and Spanish
Project Goals
* An international, multi-institutional digital
library
Serve as gateway to existing digital resources from and about the
Caribbean
Generate new digital content for scholars and students
Increase access to rare or at-risk Caribbean materials
Build capacity for digitization in the Caribbean
Implement technical infrastructure and support network in Florida and
Caribbean to support contributors of many levels of expertise
- Form partnerships with Caribbean institutions
The Challenge
implementing a collaborative digital library
with a central repository with partn
rs from
a broad range of cultures and countries
- Without partners losing claim to submitted
content
Respecting intellectual property rights to content
Respecting cultural patrimony
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The dLOC Model
SWe accept content from and about the
Caribbean
Partners retain copyright to all submitted
content
Partners may host the content on their own
servers or submit it to other collections
The content is not ours it belongs to the
submitter
Current Partners
* Caribbean Partners:
Archives Nationales
d'Haiti
Caribbean Community
(CARICOM), Guyana
Fundacion Global
Desarrollo y
Democracia, Dominican
Republic (FUNGLODE)
National Library of
Jamaica
Universidad de Oriente,
Venezuela
* American partners:
Florida International
University
University of Florida
University of Central
Florida
University of the Virgin
Islands
Governance
* Executive Committee
- Each partner appoints one
representative
- Committee democratically decides on key
issues to future of dLOC
- Members communicate via listserv dloc
- Convenes yearly at the A
Caribbean Univ
exec
association of
ersity, Research, and
Institutional Libraries (ACURIL)
Governance (cont.)
* Scholarly Advisory Board
7 Caribbeanist scholars
-Advise on themes of interest and collections
to pursue
Members communicate via dloc_advisory
listserv
Convenes once a year at the Caribbean
Studies Association (CSA) Conference
Technical
. 2Caribbean
Project
Training
Manual
Technical
Instruction
on location with follow-up
Skype
assistance
at the ready
Technical
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Training
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2. Selection
Copyright
&
Clearance
(local, with guidance on request)
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Technical
3. Metadata Creation
with automated templates
designed for ease of use
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Project
Training
Manual
Technical
4. Scanning on-site
Flat-bed or Sheet Feed Scanners
(negotiated off-site scanning of difficult items)
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5. Quality Control Application
with structural metadata controls
Technical
Quality
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FTP
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transfers digital objects
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to dLOC central
servers
with structural metadata controls
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Quality Control Application
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Text Generation
Prime Recognition with 6 voting engines
working in all Caribbean languages
FTP Application
transfers digital objects
to dLOC central servers
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7. Text Generation
servers
Prime Recognition with 6 voting engines
working in all
8. Addition
Caribbean languages
al Mark-up
METS, Dublin Core, MARCXML,
Geo-temporal tagging, etc.
FTP Application
transfers digital objects
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Technical
9. Ingest into dLOC Digital Library
with Google-like search interface
http://www.dloc.com/
Contributor Collections
Topical Collections
Geographic Interface (coming soon)
10. Digital Archiving
in the Florida Digital Archive
with redundancy and migration policies
Membership policy
Membership requirements:
* Availability of collections with Caribbean content;
* Willingness to contribute collections and to make
these freely available to the project;
* Willingness to designate representatives) to
manage local participation; and
* Willingness to comply with common standards
for digitization, bibliographic management, and
copyright.
Membership policy (cont.)
Partners in the project may either:
* Contribute digital content to a central
repository, or
* Make their digital collections available to
dLOC through compliance with OAI-PMH.
Benefits to Members
* Increased
access
* Retain full control of content
* Gain
access
to OCR output
* Digital preservation
* Contribute to decision making
* Receive digitization
support
dLOC Digitization Training
Contact
website: httr://www.dloc.com
@fiu.edu
phone: (305) 34
8-2228
address: Digital Library of th
FlU Libraries/ GL
Miami, FL 33199
22
Caribbean /
University Park /
email: dloc
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