Category: Newsletter
Assessment leads to strategic new directions for OAC and Calisphere
The CDL has recently completed a multi-faceted assessment of the Online Archive of California (OAC) and Calisphere, in order to plan for the continued development of these platforms–especially as relates to hosting and providing access to digitized special collections materials. […]
EZID wins honorable mention in Sautter Award Program
EZID (http://n2t.net/ezid), a tool for creating and maintaining long-term identifiers, has been selected for honorable mention in the Larry L. Sautter Award Program. A key tool for researchers handling data, EZID has been adopted by 8 of the 10 UC […]
Unified Digital Format Registry (UDFR) now available
The University of California Curation Center (UC3) at the CDL is pleased to announce the availability of the Unified Digital Format Registry (UDFR), http://udfr.org/. A deep understanding of digital formats is necessary to support the long-term preservation of digital assets, […]
Welcome Purdue – CIC Members Now Eligible for Web Archiving Service Discount
CDL is delighted to welcome the Purdue University Libraries as the most recent Web Archiving Service (WAS) partner. WAS enables librarians and archivists to build archives of harvested websites, and to continue their role as stewards of cultural heritage materials for […]
New Licensed Resource — JSTOR Arts & Sciences X
UC campuses now have access to this electronic resource as part of CDL consortial licenses: JSTOR Arts & Sciences X (All campuses; on the JSTOR platform) [To be completed by the end of 2013] With a minimum of 125 titles […]
Request Service unavailable July 13 at 5:00 PM – July 16 at 8:00 AM
During the weekend of July 13-15, CDL will migrate the VDX interlibrary loan application from CDL servers to servers hosted by OCLC. During the migration, which will begin at 5:00 PM PDT on July 13, the Request, My ILL and […]
New updates to EZID
EZID, the service that makes long-term identifiers easy, just got informative new content: FAQ for (and from) libraries (see Documentation (http://n2t.net/ezid/home/documentation) ) Slides from Joan Starr’s two recent ALA Annual Meeting presentations (see Outreach (http://n2t.net/ezid/home/outreach) ) Libraries and Data Management […]
HathiTrust May 2012 Update
Just in time for summer reading, the May 2012 update has been posted. So grab a comfortable chair and a refreshing beverage, and read on about the activities of our new Board of Governors, our new shared location for instructional materials, […]
Merritt Service Update: April – May 2012 http://merritt.cdlib.org
Merritt Service Description Merritt is a production level service that provides the UC community with an easy to use tool to manage, archive, and share their content. Content can be deposited and managed via a user-interface or an API. Merritt […]
DMPTool Service Update: April – May 2012 http://dmp.cdlib.org
DMPTool Service Description The Data Management Plan Tool (DMPTool) provides an easy to use interface that: • Helps users create ready-to-use data management plans for specific funding agencies • Meets funder requirements for data management plans • Provides step-by-step instructions […]