Year: 2012
Web Archiving Service Tech News – Code4Lib
Web Archiving Service developers Erik Hetzner and Scott Fisher will present at this year’s Code4Lib conference on the tools they used to re-index over 600 million files in the web archives: “Indexing Big Data with Tika, Solr & MapReduce”. The […]
Merritt Service Update
By Perry Willett, Digital Preservation Services Manager Merritt Service Description Merritt is a production level service that provides the UC community with an easy to use tool to manage, archive, and share their content. Content can be deposited and […]
EZID Service Update
By Joan Starr, EZID Service Manager Service Description EZID (easy-eye-dee) is a production service that makes it simple for digital object producers (researchers and others) to obtain and manage long-term identifiers for their digital content. EZID makes objects easier to […]
DMPTool Service Update
By Perry Willett, Digital Preservation Services Manager DMPTool Service Description The Data Management Plan Tool (DMPTool) provides an easy to use interface that: Helps users create ready-to-use data management plans for specific funding agencies Meets funder requirements for […]
UC is Moving to a Hosted VDX Solution at OCLC in 2012
By Patricia Martin, Director, Discovery & Delivery The Council of University Librarians, in consultation with several All Campus Groups and SOPAG, has endorsed CDL’s plan to move the management of UC’s VDX application from in-house at CDL to hosting at […]
PsycINFO Records Missing Publication Dates
By Teal Smith, User Communication and Instruction Librarian, UC Merced and Resource Liaison, PsycINFO Teal Smith (UCM), the Resource Liaison for PsycINFO (on the ProQuest/CSA Illumina platform), has notified CDL that some PsycINFO records are missing journal issue publication dates. […]
Melvyl Enhancements – November 2011
Several enhancements improve the user experience in Melvyl as a result of OCLC’s Sunday, November 20 install. The improvements are shown in detail in the attached PDF. (There are some items that do not apply to the UC libraries’ versions […]
Meet Rob Valentine
In its 2011 review, CDL was explicitly encouraged to “aggressively pursue external funding as a mechanism to fund the innovation and the delivery of more robust services to faculty and students” and to “expand fee-for-service offerings to external/ Non –UC […]
eScholarship Launches New Submission Management System
By Catherine Mitchell, Director, Publishing Group The eScholarship team is excited to announce the official launch of our new submission management system. This milestone marks the completion of a two-phased project, begun in 2009, to transition eScholarship (UC’s Open Access […]
HathiTrust Collection Exceeds 10 Million Volumes
HathiTrust reached a major milestone on January 5, 2012, exceeding 10 million volumes in its digital collections. More than 2.7 million of these volumes are in the public domain. Read more about the breakdown of collections by copyright distribution date, […]