Year: 2007
UC Merced: Japanese Art Collection Now Available Online
The UC Merced Library and the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture collaborated to make more than a millennium of Japanese art available online.
CDL Guidelines for Digital Objects, Version 2.0: Updated requirements for METS unique identifiers
The "CDL Guidelines for Digital Objects, Version 2.0" (CDL GDO) has been updated to reflect modified requirements for METS unique identifiers.
CDL recruiting for Manager, Infrastructure and Applications Support
The California Digital Library (CDL) invites applications for the position of Manager, Infrastructure and Applications Support.
University of California Libraries Collaborate with OCLC on Next Generation Melvyl® Catalog
The University of California Libraries are working in collaboration with OCLC Online Computer Library Center to pilot a Next Generation Melvyl Catalog supported by OCLC's WorldCat Local system.
2007 Users Council Annual Meeting
Meeting notes, with the linked PowerPoint presentations, from this year's annual Users Council meeting in Oakland on May 11 are now available.
CDL recruiting for User Experience Design Manager
The California Digital Library (CDL) invites applications for the position of User Experience Design Manager.
Melvyl Accessibility Testing
As part of our quality assurance process in the upgrade of Melvyl from ALEPH v.15 to ALEPH v.16, CDL requested the UCLA's Disabilities and Computing Program to provide an accessibility audit of the Melvyl site. Many aspects of the Request site were also included in the review. The final report is now available.
Telnet Melvyl To Be Retired in Mid-August 2007
Later this summer, the Melvyl Catalog will be upgraded to a new version of the Ex Libris software and to a new Sun Solaris platform. As part of this process, the Telnet interface to Melvyl, which is little used by UC students, faculty and staff, will be retired when the new version of the Melvyl Catalog is moved into production in mid-August 2007.
An Array of New Licensed Resources
UC campuses now have access to these electronic resources as part of CDL consortial licenses: Alloy Phase Diagram Center Online, Empire Online, Encyclopaedia of the Qur’ān, Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures, Everyday Life and Women in America, Latin American Data Base, Play Index, and Rand California.
Digital Preservation Program Update
This article provides a status report on the various projects of the Digital Preservation Program including the current status of the Digital Preservation Repository (DPR), information on the next release of the Web Archiving Service (WAS) and on NOID (Nice Opaque Identifier) software.