Year: 2011
Spreading the Word about JHOVE2: Tutorial Delivered in Salt Lake City, Rome
For the past two years the University of California Curation Center (UC3) has been partnering with Portico and Stanford on a project to develop JHOVE2, an open source format-aware characterization application and framework. The goals of the project were to […]
University of Michigan to Identify Orphan Works in HathiTrust
The University of Michigan Library’s Copyright Office is launching the first serious effort to identify orphan works among the in-copyright holdings of the HathiTrust Digital Library, which is funding the project. The vast majority of HathiTrust’s holdings are in-copyright (73%). […]
HathiTrust Makes Progress in April 2011
An update on HathiTrust Activities has been posted at http://www.hathitrust.org/updates_april2011 In addition to new functionality for its PageTurner application in April, improving the way volumes in the repository can be viewed and used (announced earlier in CDLINFO, other highlights this […]
Viewing HathiTrust Books Just Got Better
Would you like to scan the contents of a book at a glance? This is now possible with HathiTrust’s upgrade to its pageturner functionality. The recent enhancements were developed collaboratively by CDL’s Stephanie Collett and staff at the University of […]
HathiTrust Webinar Available Online
Is your 52 volume set of Voltaire checked out but someone else needs to use it? HathiTrust to the rescue! Want to learn more about HathiTrust, how it’s governed, what it contains and how people use it? HathiTrust partners participated […]
The LGBT Pride Parade: New on Calisphere
Digital Special Collections is pleased to announce a new themed collection topic on Calisphere. The topic features images of the 1977 and 1978 Lesbian and Gay Pride Parades in San Francisco. View it now! The images in this topic depict […]
Heather Christenson In Print
CDL’s Heather Christenson has published an article in Library Resources & Technical Services (LRTS) entitled, “HathiTrust; A Research Library at Web Scale.” The article, in vol. 52 (2), pages 93-102, discusses the challenges digitized collections present to research libraries. Congratulations, Heather!
Five UC Campuses now Shibboleth Enabled, Making Downloading of HathiTrust Materials Easier
Five University of California campuses, UC Berkeley, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced and San Diego, are now Shibboleth enabled for access to HathiTrust advanced services. Shibboleth is open source software for web single sign-on across or within organizational boundaries. It allows […]
Preview of Forthcoming Web Archiving Service Features
A recording of our recent web-conference session on Forthcoming Web Archiving Service Features: QA Tools, Duplicate Reduction and Search Enhancements (http://cc.readytalk.com/play?id=5xb4sl) is now available. This 60 minute demo covers: WAS Roadmap: new features in context of overall direction for the […]
Moving Forward with Next Generation Melvyl
The Next Generation Melvyl Executive Team (Karen Butter, UCSF [Chair]; Luc Declerck, UCSD [Implementation Team], Laine Farley, CDL; Patricia Martin, CDL [Chair, Implementation Team] and Gary Strong, UCLA) and Implementation Team (Sara Davidson, UCM; Luc Declerck, UCSD [Member of the Executive Team]; […]