Standards and Memberships
The California Digital Library partners with the University of California’s campus libraries and other organizations to build and maintain a shared digital collection and a digital services infrastructure.
Through active memberships in several organizations, the CDL contributes to the development of digital libraries. Staff members participate in the definition of technical standards that support digital library activities, collections, and services.
The CDL is a member of:
- Coalition for Diversity and Inclusion in Scholarly Communications
- Coalition for Networked Information
- Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)
- COUNTER
- DataCite
- Digital Library Federation (DLF)
- EDUCAUSE
- Hathi Trust
- International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC)
- International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC)
- National Information Standards Organization (NISO)
- OCLC Online Computer Library Center
- Open Content Alliance
- Research Data Alliance (RDA)
- RLG Programs
- Scholarly Publishing Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
CDL staff contributes to multiple standards development efforts; current and past contributions include:
- ACRL Scholarly Communications Committee
- DLF Aquifer
- DLF Developers Forum
- Dublin Core and Kernel Metadata
- ISO WARC File Format
- Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS)
- National Libraries Web Crawling
- NISO Business Information Topic Committee
- NISO Institutional Identifiers Working Group
- NISO MetaSearch Initiative
- Open Archives Initiative (OAI)
- OpenURL
- Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies (PREMIS)
- RLG Research Information Management
- Scholarly Publishing Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
- Z39.50