Category: Newsletter
Merritt Service Update: January 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities We’ve just created a listserv, merritt-l@ucop.edu. We will use the listserv to communicate with Merritt users, particularly with information about scheduled or unscheduled maintenances. We’ve added many people already working with Merritt (and […]
California Digital Library Named National Medal for Museum and Library Service Finalist
We are honored to share that the California Digital Library has been named as a finalist for the 19th annual National Medal for Museum and Library Service for our work on Calisphere. The National Medal is the nation’s highest honor […]
EZID Service Update: January 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities EZID’s Outreach Materials were updated with new content including a professionally designed flyer and an EZID poster for use at events and conferences. These join the EZID postcard on the EZID Outreach page (http://n2t.net/ezid/home/outreach). […]
WorldCat Local Knowledgebase for Melvyl? Not quite yet.
In fall 2012, members of the CDL WorldCat Local Operations Team completed a preliminary investigation of the WorldCat Local Knowledgebase (WCL KB). The result of the analysis was a decision not to implement the WCL KB at this time. The […]
UC Libraries Announce Open Access Publishing Fund Pilot
By Joanne Miller, Senior Analyst, Strategic and Project Planning The UC Libraries are pleased to announce new campus-based open access fund pilots to support UC faculty members who wish to make their research findings immediately and freely available to the […]
CDL’s Lisa Schiff Named as Co-Chair of ORCID Business Steering Group
Lisa Schiff, a Technical Lead in CDL’s Access & Publishing Group, has been named as co-chair of the ORCID Business Steering Group (BSG). ORCID ( Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is an open, non-profit, community-based effort to provide a registry […]
Temporary Changing of the Guard at UC3
Patricia Cruse, CDL’s Director of Digital Preservation (UC3), will be reducing her duties at the CDL between January 14 and June 30, 2013. Trisha will be working remotely from Italy and Spain while she accompanies her husband on his […]
UC3 Makes Customizable Outreach Materials Available
At the UC3 Workshops held in November, many of you mentioned wanting access to our outreach materials. Consequently, we have created a page (http://www.cdlib.org/uc3/resources/outreach.html) that pulls together flyers, logos, etc. for all of the services. Note that these are all customizable […]
DMPTool Service Update: November – December 2012
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities The UC Curation Center, CDL, in conjunction with the University of Virginia Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library, and the DataONE consortium, was awarded a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation […]
Merritt Service Update: November – December 2012
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities We have made significant changes to Merritt’s Inventory micro-service architecture, which supports indexing of metadata records for search, browse, and display. The process involved transitioning from 4Store (an RDF-based database) to MySQL. This has […]