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Category: UC Curation Center (UC3)

CDL Staff at IFLA Conference

Margaret Low, software engineer in Digital Preservation, recently returned from the IFLA Annual Conference in Quebec where she presented a very well-received paper on the CDL preservation infrastructure.

CDL Staff in Print

CDL's Preservation Program staff member Erik Hetzner presented a paper at JCDL (Joint Conference on Digital Libraries) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania last month.  His paper is entitled, "A simple method for citation metadata extraction using hidden Markov models" and is now available online.

CDL recruiting for Digital Preservation Services Manager

The California Digital Library (CDL) is recruiting for a Digital Preservation Services Manager.

Bagit: Transferring Digital Content

The CDL Digital Preservation Group, under the leadership of John Kunze, has co-developed with the Library of Congress a format for transferring digital content.

CDL Guidelines for Digital Objects, Version 2.0: Updated for METS File element

The "CDL Guidelines for Digital Objects, Version 2.0" (CDL GDO) has been updated to include specifications for use of the METS File <file> element. 

Digital Preservation News

The CDL Digital Preservation Group has been busy with a variety of exciting activities.

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. 

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.

CDL Guidelines for Digital Objects, Version 2.0 — available online

The CDL and Digital Library Services Advisory Group (DLSAG) are pleased to announce the release of the final version of the CDL Guidelines for Digital Objects (CDL GDO), Version 2.0. The guidelines are available in HTML and PDF format at […]

Release 1 of the Web Archiving Service

The Web-at-Risk, a CDL Digital Preservation Group project, achieved a major milestone with Release 1 of the Web Archiving Service (WAS) to a pilot group of project curators.  Development of the WAS marks a crucial step in enabling the libraries […]