Category: Newsletter
You Don’t Have To Be A Techie To Create Computer Transcriptions of Handwritten Documents
If your collection contains handwritten documents that could benefit from transcription, then Transkribus may be just what you need. Funded by the European Commission’s READ project, Transkribus can transcribe documents written in many languages and requires no technical knowledge on […]
Toyo Keizai Digital Content Library Now Available
The UC Berkeley Library has begun a new online subscription to the Toyo Keizai Digital Content Library; the license includes unlimited access and the publisher generously agreed to extend access to all UC campuses without any additional charge. Toyo Keizai […]
CDL, CRL & HathiTrust Shared Print Collaboration collection comparison tool release
In the beginning of 2020, CDL joined with the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) and HathiTrust to form a Collaboration for Shared Print Infrastructure. Working together, the Collaboration seeks to build on a decade of community innovation and expertise to […]
Announcing the ARK Alliance
We are thrilled to introduce the ARK Alliance as heir to the successful ARKs-in-the-Open initiative, which began in 2018 with the goal of launching an open, global community around Archival Resource Keys (ARKs) and their use as persistent identifiers in […]
The Sixties moves to ASP’s LAZR Platform
The Sixties: Primary Sources and Personal Narratives 1960-1974 has migrated to the LAZR platform, joining other Alexander Street Historical Collections. See Alexander Street Historical Collections migrate to the LAZR Platform for more information. The Sixties http://uclibs.org/PID/136017; UCB, UCI, […]
Welcome Lisa Mackinder, CDL’s new Licensing Analyst
The Shared Collections group is pleased to welcome Lisa Mackinder as our new Licensing Analyst. In this role, Lisa will handle all aspects of license management with publishers and other content providers. This includes drafting, editing, and negotiating license agreements […]
SCP Update – January 2021
For the detailed list of net increase or decrease of titles from CDL licensed and selected open access collections, see the distribution statistics report for December 2020. SCP Overview Monthly Updates The following chart and table show the overall SCP cataloging […]
Welcome to Gem Stone-Logan as CDL’s new SILS Senior Systems Analyst!
The California Digital Library’s Discovery & Delivery program is pleased to welcome Gem Stone-Logan as our Senior Systems Analyst, effective Jan 7, 2021. In this analyst role, Gem will primarily work on the Systemwide Integrated Library System (SILS) project, helping […]
CDL office closure Dec. 23, 2020 – Jan. 4, 2021
This year, UC’s Office of the President (UCOP), including the California Digital Library (CDL), will be officially closed during the Winter and New Year holiday periods from Wednesday, December 23, 2020 through Monday, January 4, 2021. The Office of the […]
‘Internet of Samples’ to use ARKs and IGSNs with physical objects
In August 2020, the US National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University and partner institutions $4 million to develop an innovative cyberinfrastructure that will integrate scientific samples into a digital data ecosystem: iSamples, the ‘Internet […]