Collapsed, Expandable Lists for Multiple Issues

The latest UFDC has many new behind the scenes improvements and many others are planned. In addition to infrastructure work, the latest release includes a few forward-facing improvements as well. For instance, items with multiple issues–like newspapers–now show with collapsed lists of issues. For instance in dLOC’s newspaper subcollection, what would have once taken 19 [...]

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Short delay in loading, should be running again tomorrow

We’re again delayed on loading with the last load on 3/13. This is a case of growing pains again and we’ve been working on plans and ordering for a major storage upgrade which should be in place soon. In the meantime we’ve all been quite productive–which is wonderful–but it means we had to put in [...]

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Older Files Loading

We’re slowly working through older files that hadn’t been able to be loaded in the days before UFDC and dLOC began. Some of these earlier files are quirky and we’re processing them before loading, but in case any still seem quirky or in case you have any questions on them, please contact us and we’ll [...]

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More great improvements!

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UFDC (the system-side powering dLOC and the UF Digital Collections) has seen a number of great recent improvements and they’re all listed here.

Highlights include:

• Embedded PDF display. Before PDFs were available as downloads and now they’re available with embedded views and as downloads.
• Thumbnails of each issue in a multi-volume set can now be seen to easily browse all of a newspaper’s first pages or all of the covers of a journal
• Map Searching, which will only improve as more geographic information is added

laurien @ April 24, 2009

Minimizing Groups for Faster Searching

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While it won’t be very noticeable for users, we recently collapsed some of the groups. This will be noticeable for what it does, which is to speed up searching, but the change in groups won’t seem like a difference because the groups haven’t been used much and the collections have instead. This doesn’t change the collections, so the only noticeable change will be faster searching.

It’s always nice when under the hood changes can stay under the hood, making the system better without introducing any confusion or problems!

laurien @ April 7, 2009