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Description: This interactive mapping using elevation data from the Google Elevation Service, and based on LIDAR elevation data from State of Florida Division of Emergency Management LiDAR project. The app’s main feature is an interactive sea level rise viewer where users can enter an address to visualize how up to a 6ft increase in sea level may affect their neighborhoods.
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Description: A database which tracks which libraries hold print copies of all Florida newspapers. Allows search by publication name, holding institution, or place of publication. Search results will show each library holding copies of a title and display a coverage note saying what years may be available from each and whether coverage is complete or scattered.
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Description: The Coral Gables Memory Talking Book is an interactive learning tool, providing an entry point to various resources related to the history of the City of Coral Gables. The focal point of this project is the City's founder, George Merrick, and the other people, places, and events that shaped the City in its early years. The Talking Book allows local history to become more accessible to the… more
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Description: The Charles Brockden Brown Electronic Archive and Scholarly Edition aims to identify, transcribe, organize, and ultimately edit Brown's uncollected writings, making them searchable in an electronic environment. Access to these texts will cast new light on Brown as a novelist, editor, and historian, revise his stature among the intellectuals of the new republic, and enhance our understanding… more
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Description: Launched in 2006 by Anna Lillios, Mark L. Kamrath, and J.D. Applen, the Zora Neale Hurston Digital Archive has two goals. Its primary purpose is to provide an academic site that will provide a repository of biographical, historical, critical, and other contextual materials related to Hurston's life and work. The site also seeks to make available various teaching resources so that both… more
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Description: The Citrus Greening Database is a cooperative effort between the University of Florida/IFAS and the Florida Center for Library Automation (FCLA) and is made possible by funding from the Florida Citrus Production Advisory Council (FCPRAC). Our objective is to collect information from around the world related to huanglongbing disease (Citrus greening) and compile and centralize it in a user… more
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Description: A federated search of biological specimens with metadata and images. The search portal links back out to the item on the contribution institution’s website. IDigBio stands for “Integrated Digitized Biocollections”. Based out of the Florida Museum of Natural History. Partners are the University of Florida, Florida State University, the Florida Museum of Natural History, and the National Science… more
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Description: An Island Luminous is a site to help readers learn about Haiti’s history. Created by historian Adam M. Silvia and hosted online by Digital Library of the Caribbean, An Island Luminous combines rare books, manuscripts, and photos scanned by archives and libraries in Haiti and the United States with commentary by over one hundred (100) authors from universities around the world.
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Description: The Florida S.Ct. Records & Briefs Project is a cooperative project funded by all of the academic law libraries in Florida. The goal of the Project is to provide a full record of all Florida Supreme Court Records & Briefs dating from 1846. This file contains opinions issued in Florida Supreme Court cases decided since August 1984 and the briefs filed in those cases. Briefs for cases… more
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Description: Bicycle route planners. Each is designed as a joint effort by Florida International University GIS Center and University of Florida Geomatics Program at Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center with input from local government and cyclists.
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Description: The Everglades R-EMAP project for year 2005 produced large quantities of data collected at 232 sampling sites. Data collection and analysis is an on-going long-term activity conducted by scientists of different disciplines at irregular intervals of several years. The data sets collected for 2005 include biogeo-chemical (including mercury and hydro period), fish, invertebrate, periphyton, and… more
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Description: Florida International University (FIU) has partnered with the City of Coral Gables to create a geospatiallyenabled Virtual Historic City. With this tool, users may navigate to any point in the city at a selected time period (e.g. the Biltmore Hotel from the 1920s to 1940s), and experience the city as it was, through a wide variety of cultural artifacts and textual materials. A virtual walking… more
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Description: FACS is a peer reviewed journal dedicated to the promotion of scholarly work in the social sciences and humanities. First published in 1992, FACS encourages scholarship that bridges two or more academic disciplines or modes of intellectual inquiry, including different languages and cultures. We invite scholars interested in these subjects to contribute their articles. We also welcome well-argued… more