Managing an open access, multi-institutional, international digital library: The digital library of the caribbean

Resource Sharing and Information Networks

Volumn 20, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 35-44

  Wooldridge, Brooke ^a   Taylor, Laurie ^b   Sullivan, Mark ^b  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Archive; Archiving; Collaboration; Collaborative partnerships; College; Cooperation; Cooperative digitization projects; Cultural heritage projects; Digital; Information technology; Library; Museum; Preservation; University; Worldwide digital libraries

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449090349     PISSN: 07377797     EISSN: 15411125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07377790903014534     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. http://webpac.uvi.edu/imls/project2002/2000.shtml 2. www.ed.gov/print/ policy/higered/leg/hea98/sec601.html
2. The nine founding institutions for dLOC: CARICOM Community Secretariat, Florida International University, Fundacion Global de Desarollo y Democracia, National Library of Jamaica, University of Central Florida, Universidad de Oriente (Venezuela), University of Florida, University of the Virgin Islands, National Archives in Haiti.
3. National Library of Aruba, Caribbean Studies Association, The College of The Bahamas, Belize National Library Service, Pontificia Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra, University of South Florida, Wider Caribbean Sea Turtle Conservation Network. All members that have contributed content are listed on the dLOC Partner page: http://www.dloc.com/?m=hbbpart.
4. The governance information is available online at http://www.dloc.com/?c= dloc&m=hitbylaw.
5. Ochoa, Marilyn and Mark Sullivan. "Digital Library of the Caribbean: a user-centric model for technology development in collaborative digitization projects." Invited paper to a Special Issue, OCLC Systems & Services: International Digital Library Perspectives: in press.
6. Partner pages include customized pages that show all materials contributed by the holding institution and the customized interfaces show those materials within an interface which has been customized to match the partner's website. For instance, see The College of The Bahamas holding page: http://dloc.com/?h=cobn and the holding page with the customized interface: http://dloc.com/?h= cobn&n=cobn.
7. For more on the Florida Digital Archive, see: http://www.fcla.edu/ digitalArchive/.