The Role of Digital Libraries in Disaster Preparedness
and Mitigation
Laurie TaylorInterim Director, UF Digital Library [email protected]
Brooke WooldridgeProject Coordinator, Digital Library of the Caribbean [email protected]
ACURIL, University of South Florida
Preservation and Access
“Without preservation, there is no access”
Final Report, Blue Ribbon Task Force on
Sustainable Digital Preservation and
Access
“Preservation without access is pointless”
The Committee For Film Preservation and
Public Access before
The National Film Preservation Board of
the Library of Congress
“Scale changes everything”
Evan Owens, Chief Technology Officer,
Portico
Digital Libraries for Disaster Preparedness & Mitigation
Community / Network
Collaboration
Communication
Image from the St. Martin News NetworkJosé Lake, Sr. (4th from L) (©Saltwater Collection/Photo by W. Roumou).
Windward Islands Opinion
Recordings by Alan Lomax
Digital images of Alan Lomax photographs Lopinot, Trinidad (www.dloc.com)
Alan Lomax recording in Dominica, 1962Photo by Antoinette Marchand. (www.culturalequity.org)
Resources
Caribbean Disaster Information Network (CARDIN), http://www.mona.uwi.edu/cardin/
Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC), www.dloc.com