Category: Publishing, Archives, and Digitization
WAS Service Update: March 2014
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Presentation. Rosalie Lack (WAS Service Manager) will be chairing a lightning talk session at the upcoming Society of American Archivists (SAA) Conference in August, in Washington, DC. The session title is “From Crawling to […]
UC Libraries Digital Collection Project: "Anteater" (Winter 2014) Release
The CDL is pleased to announce the latest release of the UC Libraries Digital Collection Implementation Project (UCLDC). The release is called “Anteater,” after UC Irvine’s mascot (each release is labeled with a campus nickname to simplify versioning). Overview The […]
WAS Service Update: January – February 2014
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Storage. The technical team started work on migrating WAS storage to San Diego Supercomputer Center. The timeline for completion is summer 2014. Once completed we will be able to realize significant cost savings on storage, […]
HathiTrust A Gold Mine for Researchers
Heist from the San Francisco Mint? An inside job? Whatever the solution to this mystery, a crafty researcher used the HathiTrust Digital Library to try to track down the answer. A couple in California’s Mother Lode country in the Sierra […]
The University of California awards contract to Symplectic for the implementation of a publication harvesting system to support UC’s Open Access Policy
The California Digital Library (CDL), in conjunction with University of California campus partners, has chosen Symplectic as the vendor to implement a publication harvesting system in support of the UC Open Access Policy, passed by the Academic Senate in July […]
Newsletter Spotlight: CDL's Mass Digitization projects
Recently, UCOP’s link newsletter included an article, Digitization project breathes new life into UC Libraries’ collections, focusing on the University of California Reprints website and CDL’s Mass Digitization projects. Check it out!
¡Viva la Causa!: Herman Baca Collection reveals 50 years of Chicano community activism in San Diego
By Sherri Berger, CDL and Marlayna Christensen, UC San Diego Approximately 40,000 pages of textual and visual material documenting Chicano community activism in San Diego are now freely available on the Online Archive of California (OAC) and Calisphere. The material […]
New OAC feature: support for publication of supplemental PDF guides
Last year, we released a new tool for the Online Archive of California (OAC) called RecordEXPRESS. This tool made it even easier for OAC contributors to create collection guides using a simple web form. RecordEXPRESS also enables contributors to attach […]
HathiTrust – December 2013 Update
HathiTrust highlights for the month of December include the following: An update on the Executive Director Search Approval of HathiTrust’s 2014 budget and fees An arrangement to preserve and provide access to materials made available by Knowledge Unlatched A reminder […]
WAS Service Update: October 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Infrastructure. Work continues on infrastructure upgrades to search and indexing. New public content 1. University of Illinois Urbana‐Champaign World Sustainable Development Web Archive. This archive aims to preserve web content published by Non‐Governmental Organizations […]