Category: Online Archive of California
Local History Resources – New Collections in Calisphere and the OAC
Over 1,500 new digitized primary resources are now available in the CDL's Calisphere and Online Archive of California (OAC) websites as of February 2008.
UCSF Japanese Woodblock Print Collection
The UCSF Library and Center for Knowledge Management is pleased to announce a new website featuring the Japanese Woodblock Print Collection.
UC Merced: Japanese Art Collection Now Available Online
The UC Merced Library and the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture collaborated to make more than a millennium of Japanese art available online.
Local History Digital Resources Featured in Calisphere and the Online Archive of California (OAC)
More than 3,600 digitized primary resources from 19 California cultural heritage institutions are now featured in the CDL’s Calisphere (http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/) and Online Archive of California (http://www.oac.cdlib.org/) websites. The new online collections showcase local history materials, including photographs, ephemera, posters, maps, […]
Revised Image Displays in the Online Archive of California (OAC) and The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake & Fire Web Sites
The CDL recently completed an upgrade to its instance of the eXtensible Text Framework (XTF), which serves as the search and display system for the OAC. As part of this process, we launched updated versions of our displays for image […]
OAC Receives the Society of American Archivist’s Coker Award
On August 19, 2005, at the Society of American Archivist’s annual meeting, the Online Archive of California (OAC) received the C.F.W. Coker Award in recognition of the OAC’s finding aid system, which provides a model for a consortial approach to […]
Online Archive of California: OAC 3.0 Release
The CDL and the OAC Operations Group are pleased to announce the release of the Online Archive of California, Version 3.0 at http://www.oac.cdlib.org. OAC 3.0 represents two primary changes from previous systems: Use of a new software platform developed by […]
OAC Update: Finding Aid Submission Requirements Post-January 2005
Institutions contributing EAD finding aids to the Online Archive of California (OAC) should note the following upcoming dates pertaining to the release of OAC 3.0 in January 2005. For more details, see the project web page at: http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/oac/news/ EAD Version […]
OAC Best Practice Guidelines for EAD, Version 2.0 Released
The OAC Working Group Metadata Standards Subcommittee is pleased to announce the release of the “OAC Best Practice Guidelines for EAD, Version 2.0” at: http://www.cdlib.org/inside/diglib/guidelines/bpgead/ These updated guidelines are based on the EAD Version 2002 DTD, the current version of […]