Category: UC Curation Center (UC3)
DataONE to Deal with Data Deluge
Researchers at the University of California have partnered with dozens of other universities and agencies to create DataONE (http://dataone.org), a global data access and preservation network for earth and environmental scientists that will support breakthroughs in environmental research.
iPRES 2009 hosted by CDL
On October 5-6 2009, over 300 people from 22 countries attended iPRES 2009 at the Mission Bay Conference Center on the UCSF Mission Bay campus. iPRES 2009 was the sixth in an annual series of conferences devoted to digital preservation, and with the 300 attendees, the largest ever.
Public Access to Web Archiving Service Goes Live
The California Digital Library is pleased to announce public access to the archives built with the Web Archiving Service. The tools that CDL provides to capture, curate and preserve websites now also enable librarians to publish the archives they've created for the benefit of researchers and the general public.
CDLers in Print
Patricia Cruse, director of the CDL Digital Preservation Program, and Beth Sandore, have edited a special issue of Library Trends. Also included is an article by CDL's Web Archiving Service Manager, Tracy Seneca, entitled, The Web-at-Risk at Three: Overview of an NDIIPP Web Archiving Initiative.
End of Bush's Term: Will It Disappear from the Web?
Will the Homeland Security and No Child Left Behind websites disappear on January 20th 2009? To ensure that the historical record of the current administration is not lost, a partnership of government and nonprofit agencies has taken responsibility for its preservation.
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.