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Capturing Caribbean Life & Culture
Jeff Barry
Director, Digital Library Programs & Technology
University of Miami
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…another perspective…
Experiencing Caribbean life & culture through digital media.
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Overview Miami and the Caribbean University of Miami’s Digital Library Caribbean Literary Studies Faculty Collaborations
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Defining the Caribbean
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Miami & the Caribbean Commonalities & differences Diaspora Relationship to Latin America
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University of Miami’sDigital Library Cuban Heritage Collection Digital Digital Media Lab Caribbean initiatives Imagebase Faculty Fellows
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Caribbean Digital Initiatives CHC Digital Caribbean Literary Studies Archivo Teatral Cubano Moderate Cuban Politics, 1952-65 Balseros: Cuban Rafting Crisis
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Setting the Stage for Library & Faculty Collaborations
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Digital Media LabA centralized facility in the library for exploring the potential to
enhance instruction and research through digital audio and video.
Staffing: full-time lab manager, student assistantsEquipment: 4 digital audio/video editing workstations & 4 digital
imaging workstations
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Streaming media The library (quietly) manages streaming
media services for the University. 2001: Streaming media server donated
to library by School of Communication. 2004: Support RealNetworks &
Windows streaming media, exploring QuickTime support.
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It’s about CONTENT! Enormous potential for universities to
capture intellectually vibrant events on campus via digital media.
What role can/do/should libraries play in acquiring and managing this content?
Relationship to university archives? To institutional repositories?
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Collaboration with Caribbean Literary Studies Caribbean Writers’ Summer Institute Video Archives Electronic Journal
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Caribbean Writers’ Summer Institute 1991-1996 Initially funded by
James Michener Directed by Sandra
Paquet Video recording by
School of Communication
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Caribbean Writers
Kamau Brathwaite & George Lamming, co-directors of first Caribbean writers institute.
Over 400 video files online featuring notable writers, scholars as well as emerging authors.
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Caribbean Literary Video Archives Expand content
beyond writers’ institute (91-96)
Continuing series of readings, conferences.
Oonya Kempadoo, fall 2003
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Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal
Peer reviewed, bi-annual
First issue: fall 2003 Second issue: April
2004 Library provides server
space, technological assistance, and guidance on e-publishing
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Dealing with Pagination in Anthurium Citations in literary criticisms refer to a
specific page number. How to deal with this issue in an
electronic only publication that has no “pages”.
Followed example of paragraph numbering in Postmodern Culture
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But are they paragraphs or endnotes? Where’s the article!
Paragraph numbering is not common and can lead to confusion among readers.
Anthurium’s 2nd issue adopts a different display scheme for paragraph numbering.
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“Namsetoura & the Companion Stranger” Original work by Kamau Brathwaite
prepared specifically for Anthurium. Brathwaite utilizes a textual style that he
developed, “video sycorax”. Despite wanting all pages of Anthurium
to be in HTML, we opted to display “Namsetoura” in PDF (84 pages).
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Multi-layer Framework
Repository: digital objects (item/metadata in filesystem)
Access: Search & retrieval
exhibit documentary narrative
Interpretive: Repurposing of content by scholars into works of new scholarship
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Primary lesson learned
The collaboration with the Caribbean Literary Studies group has worked well due to the vision of a professor who championed the projects and the tireless commitment of grad students.
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Digital Library Fellows Three faculty projects selected a year. Provide extensive technological
support, work space in library, and $15,000 (could be used for stipend, grad assistants, research travel, etc).
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Conclusion Find inspiring faculty & give them
resources. …foster & nurture…