Category: Publishing, Archives, and Digitization
PDF processing: a behind-the-scenes but important update to the OAC
This week we changed how we process PDF documents on the Online Archive of California (OAC). Although this won’t result in any flashy new features on the OAC, it will improve the site’s functionality for both contributors and end users. […]
WAS Service Update: June 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities WAS 2.0 release of new curator tools. Development and testing completed. Release date scheduled for the week of July 8. The curator features will include: ability to override robots.txt; new QA reports; additional metadata […]
Web Archiving Service (WAS) 2.0 Release of New Curator Tools
The web is ephemeral – sites are continually redesigned and updated. Pages and even sites can disappear overnight. The Web Archiving Service (WAS) provides curator tools for selecting, capturing, managing, and preserving web content and a public interface for the […]
Emory University Web Archives Now Online
The Emory University web archives include websites produced by Emory’s administrative offices, schools, departments, institutes, centers, and programs, as well as its faculty, student, and alumni organizations. The web archives created by Emory University Archives document Emory University’s evolving […]
CDL Welcomes Katrina Romanowsky
CDL welcomes Katrina Romanowsky to the CDL as the new eScholarship Community & Outreach Manager for the Access & Publishing team. Katrina’s is a crucial new position for this group, working closely with Justin Gonder to ensure that publishing and […]
UC Davis releases university web archives
UC Davis’s web archive of over 300 sites from the ucdavis.edu domain is now available for public access. This is a project of the UCD University Archives (started in 2011) to capture the websites of the University’s administration, schools and […]
UC Libraries partner with DPLA via HathiTrust
As announced today, HathiTrust Digital Library collections, including over 400,000 UC volumes, will be discoverable within the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) project. Of HathiTrust’s nearly 11 million volumes, the 3.5 million that are in the public domain or […]
HathiTrust May 2013 Update
May brings changes and challenges to HathiTrust as you can read in the May newsletter. This issue includes the following: A message from Executive Director John Wilkin on his appointment as the Dean of Libraries at the University of Illinois. […]
WAS Service Update: May 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities WAS 2.0 release of new curator tools. We have decided to release the new curator tools ahead of the other features that were originally included in WAS 2.0 (i.e., migration to Solr and implementation of […]
UCLA Online Campaign Literature Web Archive is now available
In 2012, the UCLA Online Campaign Literature Archive team started using WAS to capture elections for local, state, and federal offices affecting the Los Angeles area, as well ballot measure websites from California state and local Los Angeles area […]