University of Florida Digital Collections

The University of Florida Digital Collections (UFDC) are supported by the University of Florida Digital Library Center in the George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida. 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 (Open Access) and provide full text searchability. In UFDC, all items can be text searched simultaneously or certain collections can be selected for a faceted search. 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, and other materials.

Technologies, Statistics, and Findability
The UF Digital Collections are powered by the open source SobekCM software engine and suite of associated tools. The associated tools include online user tools and standalone software for use in digitizing and curating born digital materials. The online system is deployed with Solr 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 Adobe Flash 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 Google Maps API.

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.

Selected List of Collections

 * See all collections in UFDC
 * University of Florida Baldwin Library and the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature Digital Collection
 * Florida Digital Newspaper Library and Florida Digital Newspaper Library
 * Digital Library of the Caribbean and Digital Library of the Caribbean, a collaborative digital library where UF is the technical host partner
 * Florida and Puerto Rico Digital Newspaper Project (UFNDNP)
 * Florida Aerials
 * Pioneer Days in Florida
 * University of Florida Panama and the Canal Collection and the Panama and the Canal Digital Collection
 * Jean-Marie Derscheid for the Jean-Marie Derscheid Digital Collection
 * African American Collections
 * Africana Digital Collections
 * Florida Architecture & Landscape Design Digital Collection
 * Asian Digital Collections
 * Comics Digital Collection
 * Parkman Dexter Howe Library Digital Collection
 * Education Module Digital Collection
 * Florida Cities Digital Collection
 * Oral History Digital Collections from the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program and Matheson Museum
 * Florida History and Heritage Digital Collections
 * Historic Newspaper Catalog Record Collection
 * Florida Law Digital Collection
 * Florida Photographs Digital Collections
 * Oral Histories Digital Collection
 * Food and Agricultural Sciences Digital Collection
 * International Farming Systems Collection
 * European Digital Collections
 * Graphic Art Digital Collection
 * Jaqi Languages Digital Collection
 * Judaica Digital Collections
 * Natural Sciences Digital Collection
 * Open Stacks Project
 * Performing Arts Digital Collection
 * Psychological Study of the Arts Digital Collection
 * Radical Women in Gainesville Digital Collection
 * Rossica Digital Collection
 * Sanborn Maps Digital Collection
 * Sciences and Technologies Digital Collection
 * South American Digital Collections
 * Spanish Borderlands Digital Collections
 * Southwest Florida Library Network (SWFLN) Digital Collections
 * The Floridians Digital Collection
 * Theology Digital Collection
 * Health Science Archives Photographs Collection
 * Herbarium Specimens Digital Collection
 * University of Florida Institutional Repository
 * Wetlands Digital Collection
 * Women in Development Digital Collection
 * World Maps Digital Collection
 * Unearthing St. Augustine's Colonial Heritage