Category: Publishing, Archives, and Digitization
CDL Job Opening for OAC/Calisphere Service & Outreach Manager
The California Digital Library (CDL) is hiring a Service & Outreach Manager to promote access to and awareness of a world-class collection of historical and primary source digital materials, aggregated at the statewide and national level through our services. Your […]
Cobweb Update: Establishing a Collaborative Collecting Project
Over the next few weeks, we will be conducting user testing of the Cobweb functional prototype along with a few high-fidelity wireframes to learn from potential users about what they’d consider most useful in a collaborative collection development platform. One […]
Save the Date: “Choosing Pathways to OA” Working Forum, Oct 16-17
On behalf of all ten campuses of the University of California Libraries plus the California Digital Library, we wish to share the below invitation for an October 16-17 working forum. Full details below, and on our site Choosing Pathways to […]
New Mass Digitization Section Added to CDLib.org
The Mass Digitization section on the CDLib.org website has a brand new look! New and updated content describes the work, goals, and projects of the Mass Digitization team. Included is information on where to find, access, and use UC’s mass […]
Over one million digital items from California cultural heritage institutions now available through Calisphere!
The deeper you look, the even more you discover! Big news: over one million historical images, texts, recordings, and other primary resources are now available in the statewide digital resource aggregation represented by Calisphere, and soon in the Digital Public […]
UC Libraries on eScholarship
The UC Libraries now have a presence on eScholarhip. The URL is: https://escholarship.org/uc/uc_libraries You can also find this content by searching “University of California Systemwide Libraries” in the eScholarship search box. The documents found on the UC Libraries eScholaship presence are products […]
Cobweb Update: How Cobweb Facilitates Participatory Web Archiving
Given its breadth and depth, archiving the web can seem an overwhelming endeavor. Digital curators typically approach web archiving by first determining what to collect based on the collecting scope established by their organization. Once they’ve identified the general theme […]
CDL Opening for Senior Product Manager
The California Digital Library (CDL) is a collaborative effort of the ten campuses of the University of California. As a UC systemwide library, CDL provides services to and on behalf of the UC system in partnership with the UC campus […]
Birds, Bees, and EZIDs: Where Do CDL’s Persistent Identifiers Come from?
Leading up to UC-DLFx, CDL staff had been asked to explain how our services work with EZID and how the identifiers used in each system are related. At the conference we gave a brief presentation illustrating how Merritt, eScholarship, and Dash […]
CDL Job Opening for Applications Programmer
The California Digital Library (CDL) is seeking an Applications Programmer analyst to help build and provide access to a world-class collection of historical and primary source materials. We need your expertise to uncover and share the remarkable, one-of-a-kind collections held […]