We are pleased to announce the launch of the Indian Ocean Digital Collection, a site that gathers together a diverse group of materials from the region. This site is a collaboration of several departments: site vision and content curation from Charlotte Priddle of Fales and Tim Johnson of Social Sciences and Humanities, funding for digitization from NYU Abu Dhabi, and digitization and publication from DLTS. This site represents the first substantial library collection that focuses on the Indian Ocean as a whole.
At launch, the site contains 30 books. We will soon add maps, and within a few months, we will also add postcards. We’re also working on some features to enhance discovery. We will roll out the new features and additional content as soon as it is ready.
Special thanks to:
- Laura, who spun up this site with lightning speed. This was possible because
- Alberto built a flexible Web site framework that we’ve been using starting with Arabic Collections Online, and
- Kate published 30 books without breaking a sweat, and
- Rasan helped us deal with some anomalies about those books, and
- Joe staged those books for publication, and
- Melitte’s team digitized those books in the first place, and last but not least,
- Eric was there from the beginning to make sure everything went through the process from start to finish.
A shout-out to Flannon, who helped us deal with anomalies between development and production and managed the Apache restarts.