Category: Discovery & Delivery
Say Hello to Liz Miraglia, the Discovery and Delivery Program’s new Associate Director
The California Digital Library’s Discovery and Delivery program team is thrilled to welcome Liz Miraglia to her new role as Associate Director. Liz brings with her nine years of experience with the UC Libraries, working in various programs and roles […]
UC Libraries endorse Joint Statement on the Metadata Rights of Libraries
On behalf of the UC Libraries, the Council of University Librarians (CoUL) has unanimously approved endorsement of the Joint Statement on the Metadata Rights of Libraries. Released in March 2023 by the International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC) and the […]
Job Opening: Senior Product Manager – Metadata Services
The California Digital Library (CDL) is recruiting for the Senior Product Manager – Metadata Services position. Senior Product Manager – Metadata Services Reporting to CDL’s Discovery and Delivery Associate Director, the Senior Product Manager – Metadata Services, oversees the management […]
A Tribute to Our Friend and Colleague, Claudia Conrad
At the end of December, CDL lost a beloved and respected colleague, Claudia Conrad. Claudia joined CDL in 2018 as the Discovery and Delivery (D2D) team’s Product Manager for Metadata and the Zephir service, which supplies metadata to the HathiTrust […]
Investigating a better UC ebook reading experience: Phase 1 report
The UC Palace Project Team completed their phase 1 investigation of the Palace ebook reading platform in summer 2023 and submitted a report to the Direction and Oversight Committee (DOC) in fall 2023. DOC endorsed the report recommendations at their […]
Investigating a Better UC Ebook Reading Experience
If you are a library patron, reading an ebook on your phone or tablet is hard. That’s because, depending on the publisher, different ebooks require different reading apps. To get around this problem, the New York Public Library developed an […]
Raiden van Bronkhorst Joins CDL
CDL’s Discovery and Delivery Team is excited to welcome our new software engineer, Raiden van Bronkhorst. Raiden will be working primarily on machine learning projects. Raiden is a recent cum laude graduate of Western Washington University (WWU) where he majored […]
AGUA Development Phase 6 Planning Kickoff – WEST Member Input Requested
During ‘off years’ of the WEST collection analysis cycle, WEST works on identifying and building out enhancements to AGUA, our collection analysis and decision support system. In previous Development Phases the WEST governance committees have prioritized a range of projects, […]
Spotlight on AGUA Development: Metadata Validation
One of the major projects WEST undertook in 2021 to enhance AGUA was a project to improve metadata validation practices to support more rigorous data analysis by the AGUA Technical Team and to report back findings to WEST members to […]
AGUA Development Phase 5: Final Report
Every other year, when not conducting the biennial collections analysis, WEST undertakes systems development on AGUA, the WEST collection analysis and decision support tool. Planning for the fifth AGUA Development Phase (“Phase 5”) began in the summer of 2020, with […]