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Multimedia Visualization and Interactive Systems – Drawing Board Possibilities and Server Realities Dr. Ray Uzwyshyn University of Miami, Digital Library InitiativesPresented For Sparking Synergies: Bringing Research and Practice TogetherCharlotte, North Carolina, 2005. University of Miami Libraries UM Digital Library Initiatives Paradigm Shift Case Study Cuban Rafter Phenomenon: A Unique Sea Exodus (2005) Technical Conceptual Deconstruction What makes a Paradigm Shift Digital Library? Fertile new territory to debate Conceptual Theory vs. Digital Implementation(Drawing Board Possibilities and Server Realities) Application brings hopes of research and challenges of praxis together in fundamentally different remix than before Site acts as a fulcrum for larger shift ground to a new emphasis and balance In our case a traditional open source text heavy (PhP/MySql/database silo shop to one that has begun to think seriously about new media/multimedia interactive digital library possibilities Background Spring 2003 Dr. Holly Ackerman, Latin American Studies Specialist and Fulbright Scholar Approaches Dept. Ford Foundation Grant between University of Miami, St. Thomas Centre for Human Rights, Florida International University Cuban American Studies Program What are the characteristics of this digital library? Should contain a wide range of existing documents pertaining to this history Traverse an expanded range of academically non traditional media types (i.e. audio interviews, video footage, maps, statistical data, images, video, archivally intact gov. documents Expand notion of traditional academic text/database search retrieval information system Maintain Ph.D. level historiographic depth structure and integrity of archival sources (unedited interviews, footage) Transgressing Traditional Digital Library Boundaries Dr. Ackerman was very open to expanding digital library boundaries (experimentation). did not want to use grant to produce traditional front