Working Across Borders
dLOC is comprised of educational, research, governmental and non-governmental institutions aligned for the purpose of facilitating efficient access to electronic collections about the Caribbean. As such, membership in dLOC is open to archives, libraries, and museums; associations, organizations, and research centers; and publishers.
Current partners are on the Partners Page, all of whom are currently digitizing content to be hosted in dLOC.
Institutions are eligible to join the organization based on the following criteria:
Willingness to contribute collections and to make these freely available to the project.
Availability of appropriate collections with Caribbean content.
Willingness to comply with common standards.
Willingness to designate a representative to manage local participation.
Partners in the project may :
Contribute digital content to dLOC's centralized repository via FTP or another form of web transmission.
"Snail mail" dLOC hard disks, CD-ROMs, DVDs, or other digital media containing items for submission.
Make their digital collections available to dLOC in compliance with the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH).
dLOC, however, does not make any claim to ownership of the materials it hosts and serves in its collection. All project partners are responsible for copyright control of their own submitted content. For more information on eligibility requirements for partnership and conditions of membership in dLOC, please see our Invitation for partner institutions to join dLOC (in .pdf format).