Author: CDL
7train METS Generation Tool Released
The California Digital Library (CDL) is pleased to announce the release of “7train”, an XSLT 2.0-based tool for generating Metadata and Encoding Transmission Standard (METS) files from standardized XML inputs. Version 1 of the open-source, platform-independent tool is available via […]
Calisphere Web Site Launched
Calisphere is now available at: http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu. Calisphere is a free public gateway to thousands of digitized primary sources – including photographs, documents, newspaper clippings, works of art – from UC museums and libraries and other cultural heritage institutions across California. […]
New Resources Available
a. ATLA Religion Database, Index Islamicus, Philosopher’s Index By Jan Carter, UC Berkeley The CDL is pleased to announce access to three new databases in philosophy and religious studies available from CSA. The ATLA (American Theological Library Association) Religion Database […]
New Resources Available
a. Education Index Retrospective By Diane Childs (UCLA), Resource Liaison Education Index Retrospective, with indexing for 1929 through 1983, has recently been purchased by the CDL. On WilsonWeb, it complements the current UC subscription to Education Full Text (with indexing 1983-; […]
Metasearch Infrastructure Project Reaches Key Milestone
A milestone in creating a UC campus configurable metasearch tool has been reached: an alpha, or very first testing stage, version of UC’s “Find It” metasearch tool was unveiled and reviewed by two groups of UC librarians on May 4 […]
UC Libraries Presentation at Board of Regents Meeting
On Thursday, May 18, Dan Greenstein, Associate Vice Provost and University Librarian for the CDL, gave a presentation at the UC Board of Regents meeting about the accomplishments the UC libraries and their staffs have achieved through innovation and collaboration. […]
Updated CDL Technical Requirements for Vendors
The CDL’s technical requirements for database and ejournal vendors were updated in April 2006. These documents reflect new or revised sections on information security, preservation, metasearch, and authentication via Shibboleth. They are intended to be shared with database and ejournal […]
CopyrightMD
The California Digital Library is making available the first draft of its XML schema for copyright metadata, CopyrightMD. This schema grew out of work at the CDL to address the integration of rights information into the digital library workflow. During […]
NISC’s “Africa-Wide NiPAD” replaces “African Studies” and incorporates “South African Studies”
By Ruby Bell-Gam (Resource Liaison), UCLA NISC is discontinuing its “African Studies” database, replacing it with the more comprehensive “Africa-Wide NiPAD”, which includes all of the content of two NISC databases, “African Studies” and “South African Studies”. The new database […]
Vendor Changes for the Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals and the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)
By Susan Koskinen (UC Berkeley), Resource Liaison, and Susan Jurist, (UC San Diego), Resource Liaison We are happy to announce that the Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals and Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) will be available via CSA […]