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coloniaLab is an experimental workshop for the collaborative electronic edition of manuscript and rare print texts related to colonial Latin America. coloniaLab seeks to produce high–quality textual scholarship, pose theoretical and practical questions related to the edition of colonial–era texts, and develop strategies for preparing a new generation of Humanities scholars to engage with the complex textual history of Latin America.

The Heritage Collection consists of over 1,100 historical photographs from all aspects of daily life in the Alachua County area. Treat yourself to a journey of amazing historical detail and profound human interest through this annotated photographic expose’ of the Alachua region spanning the 1870s through the 1970s. Experience and understand local history in a different way, through the faces and places of the past that still influence the present.

The collection presents a pictorial record of the commercial, residential and social growth of Tampa Bay and Florida's West coast from the late 1800s to the early 1960s.Over 20,000 images in the Burgert Brothers Photographic Collection chronicle the history of the Tampa Bay area as it faced wars, natural disasters, economic booms and busts. The images offer a view of a community at work, from cigar factories, sponge docks and strawberry fields, to grocery stores, service stations and bank lobbies. Many of the photographs also depict a community at leisure, enjoying a day at the beach, participating in local celebrations, attending the Florida State Fair or playing favorite games such as golf, tennis, shuffleboard or checkers.

This extraordinary archive - a visual link with our past and our heritage - is preserved at the John F. Germany Public Library for the public to view and use. The Library has made reference prints for public examination. A photocopier/scanner is available for reproductions of the reference prints or customers can bring their own photographic equipment to make digital images of the materials. Reprints of the photographs from high-resolution images of the negatives are also available through a photography studio.

The Bay County Public Library maintains a local history collection in a local history room set aside for that purpose. The Library has a collection of approximately 7,000 photographs and almost 5,000 of these are catalogued and searchable by subject area in the Bay County Public Library Catalog. Patrons may obtain a copy of any photograph for a small fee. The Bay District Schools owns the Tommy Smith Photograph Collection of 1,998 photos that they will maintain. The Tommy Smith Collection is also cataloged and searchable in the Bay County Public Library Catalog. This collection contains historic and current photos of local landmarks, people, buildings, churches, schools, community events and other items that reflect the history of Bay County and its communities.

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 plant data. Each sampling site is associated with a location, a description of the site to provide a general overview and photographs to provide a pictorial impression. The Geographic Information Systems Center (GIS Center) at Florida International University (FIU) has designed and implemented an enterprise database for longterm storage of the project's data in a central repository, providing the framework of data storage for Inventory of Digital Libraries 41 the continuity of future sampling campaigns and allowing integration of new sample data as it becomes available. In addition GIS Center provides this interactive web application for easy, quick and effective retrieval and visualization of that data.

The Recorded Sound Archives (RSA) part of FAU Libraries Digital Collections is located in the Wimberly Library on FAU's Boca Raton campus. Originally established in 2002 as a small project dedicated to the preservation of recorded Jewish music, it has matured into a robust digitization operation for all types of sound recordings.

The history, culture and people of Miami Beach. An informational and educational site introducing Miami Beach — the sounds, artifacts and images that make it the international center it has become.

With the help of students and volunteers from the local community, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden is working to restore some of South Florida's most rare and endangered orchid species into our urban landscape. In partnership with researchers at Florida International University, the North American Orchid Conservation Center, local municipalities and over 100 local schools, Fairchild is propagating large quantities of native orchid plants from seed.

The Florida Coastal Everglades (FCE) LTER Program is part of the National Science Foundation's Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network . FCE research focuses on the Everglades ecotone where Inventory of Digital Libraries 38 freshwater meets saltwater along the Florida coast, a hotspot for sea level rise effects. FCE researchers study how hydrology, climate, and human activities affect ecosystem and population dynamics in the ecotone and, more broadly, the Florida coastal Everglades. Daniel Gann and Jennifer Richards are providing a landscape context for some of this ongoing research in the southeastern coastal Everglades. Using WorldView-2 2x2 m pixel satellite imagery, supplemented by LIDAR data where available, they are mapping a 1-km-wide belt around six pre-existing, long-term nutrient- and salinity-monitoring transects that stretch from freshwater marshes in the north to mangrove mashes in the south, crossing the oligohaline ecotone. Vegetation class percent cover derived from these maps will be used to estimate vegetation biomass, relying on pre-existing and/or literature data for estimates of standing stock per unit area.

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.