Category: Mass Digitization
Meet Jason Colman
By Ellen Meltzer, Manager, Information Services Jason Colman’s reputation preceded him when he came to CDL’s Mass Digitization Program as a Project Specialist. Although he brings a rich background in digital libraries, he was probably more widely known as the […]
UC’s Internet Archive-digitized Books Now Loading into the HathiTrust
By Heather Christenson, CDL HathiTrust Project Manager Through a collaborative effort between the California Digital Library and the University of Michigan, the University of California volumes digitized by Internet Archive are now flowing into the HathiTrust Digital Library. This accomplishment […]
Exciting Milestone: Digitized Books Now Accessible through NGM Pilot
Users can now find links to HathiTrust volumes, including University of California Google digitized works, in the Next Generation Melvyl Pilot. There are approximately 5.5 million digital volumes in HathiTrust, many unique. Of these, about 1.1 million (and counting) have […]
Hurtling Toward the Finish Line: Should the Google Books Settlement Be Approved?
Ivy Anderson, Director of Collections California Digital Library Late last week, Google and the plaintiffs filed their final briefs in defense of the Google Books Amended Settlement Agreement (ASA) that is before the New York Southern Federal District Court. As […]
HathiTrust Update
By Heather Christenson, Mass Digitization Project Manager and CDL HathiTrust Project Manager The HathiTrust has released a January 2010 update. The following are highlights of UC contributions to the HathiTrust, as well as items of special interest to our UC […]
Mass Digitization Projects Update: 2009 in Review
By Heather Christenson, CDL Mass Digitization Project Manager The UC Libraries’ made great progress in mass digitization of books in 2009, despite significant fiscal challenges. In April 2009 we reached a major milestone: over 2 million books digitized! In August […]
HathiTrust Large Scale Search
Effective November 18th, the HathiTrust Digital Library is now providing full-text searching capabilities across the entire library of 4.6 million volumes (1.6 billion pages) in the collection.
Completion of UC-Internet Archive on-site mass digitization projects
In 2005, the UC Libraries entered into a ground-breaking partnership with the Internet Archive to digitize public domain book collections from the University of California Libraries. Today, five years and over 64 million pages later, we announce the conclusion of this phase of our Internet Archive collaboration and celebrate the work we have accomplished together.
HathiTrust Update
Through the diligent efforts of a CDL and University of Michigan team, UC's Google-digitized books are now flowing into the HathiTrust repository, and ingest is progressing well. At the time of this writing, the number of volumes available via the HathiTrust beta catalog is 136,125, and this number grows weekly.
Mass Digitization Projects Update
2008 was a busy year for our UC Libraries' book digitization activities. This article reviews those efforts.