Category: Newsletter
DMPTool Service Update: May 2017
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Roadmap update. We just reached a huge milestone (!), pushing a preliminary version of the DMPRoadmap code out to test on DCC-hosted DMPonline, DMPTuuli, and DMPMelbourne. Stay tuned for an update about when DCC will migrate […]
EZID Service Update: May 2017
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities John Kunze, EZID System Architect, and Greg Janée, EZID Technical Lead, both attended the third annual CSV conference in Portland, May 2-3. “CSV” is short for “comma separated values,” and it is a common […]
Barbara Cormack Joins D2D
Barbara Cormack joins the Discovery & Delivery (D2D) group this Thursday, June 1st as a metadata analyst. Barbara will be working on Zephir, the HathiTrust metadata management system, as well as on other metadata-intensive projects. Barbara brings deep experience and […]
Melvyl transition to WorldCat Discovery is delayed (again)
Melvyl will not transition from WorldCat Local (WCL) to WorldCat Discovery (WCD) this summer. The CDL Melvyl Operations Team is currently working with OCLC to resolve a technical problem that is affecting resource sharing. In order to isolate the problem and […]
Make Data Count: Building a System to Support Recognition of Data as a First Class Research Output
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has made a 2-year, $747K award to the California Digital Library, DataCite and DataONE to support collection of usage and citation metrics for data objects. Building on pilot work, this award will result in the […]
John Kratz joins UX Team
CDL is happy to announce that John Kratz has joined the User Experience Design team as a full-time career UX designer. In case you weren’t aware of John’s history here at CDL and his many contributions and project work prior […]
Please save your Artstor Digital Library notes and citations before June 1st
The Artstor Support Team sent information today (May 18th) about some upcoming feature changes which may require users to save some of their work in the Artstor Digital Library. These changes are part of the release of an improved platform […]
HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) Seeks Proposals from Scholars
The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is seeking proposals from scholars interested in receiving advanced collaborative support to solve challenging problems related to computational analysis. Who may submit proposals? Individual scholars or teams of scholars from academic and non-profit institutions. At […]
AP Images Collection is transitioning to the EBSCOhost platform
The Associated Press (AP) Images Collection will be hosted exclusively on the EBSCOhost® platform beginning on June 16, 2017. It is currently hosted on the APImages.com platform. AP Images Collection is a primary source database with millions of images from 1826 […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: May 2017
SCP has posted the distribution statistics report for the month of April. This monthly report shows titles being added and/or removed from CDL licensed and selected open access collections. Here are highlights of our major record distributions. Our major serial […]