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Breaking News

RSS Feeds by Institution!

laurien @ November 20, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Mark Sullivan (our wonderful UFDC Programmer) just added RSS feeds by institution to UFDC!
For each institution (other than ones we suppressed, such as UF), we have a complete RSS feed with every item, and a feed with just the last 20 items added. This is a feed for all items tagged to this [...]

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We’re Loading Again!

laurien @ November 19, 2008 # No Comment Yet

After 14 long days, UFDC is finally loading again. We had bad hardware and had to restore from a backup and with so many files (and permissions to be reset) it took a long time. Thankfully, UFDC is finally loading again.
It shouldn’t be that important–not so important that it pains me when we don’t load [...]

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Metadata & Cataloging Resources

laurien @ November 12, 2008 # No Comment Yet

One of the existing resources for metadata and cataloging is:

UF’s Minimal Record Guideline for Locally Digitized Material

UF’s Metadata Mapping for MODS, METS, and MARC

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Loading Paused for Drive Restore

laurien @ November 12, 2008 # One Comment

One of the drives on the development box went bad, so we’re in the process of restoring it. Unfortunately, diagnosing this and fixing it has been in process since last Wednesday so we haven’t loaded for a week now. We hoped to have this up and running by now, but now we’re hoping for tomorrow [...]

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MARC Metadata Mapping

laurien @ November 5, 2008 # No Comment Yet

The current mapping is still being actively refined. We’re working with our cataloging department and stepping through by format type. We will be re-enriching all the metadata for any items which have OCLC or UF Aleph records once our mapping is completed, which should be a matter of a week or so.
To see the current [...]

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