Category: Publishing, Archives, and Digitization
WAS Service Update: February 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities WAS 2.0 Release. Work continues on the release. SJSU Intern. Caitlin O’Neal López has joined our team, virtually, as an intern from San Jose State University School of Library and Information Science. (Caitlin currently […]
HathiTrust February 2013 Update
By Heather Christenson, Project Manager, Mass Digitization The HathiTrust update on February activities is now available. Top News: the HathiTrust Research Center plans a release of software infrastructure at the end of March, loaded with the latest and greatest service components and […]
Historic audio and video recordings on OAC and Calisphere
CDL is pleased to announce the recent addition of 33 digitized sound and video recordings to the Online Archive of California (OAC) and Calisphere, as part of a pilot project to investigate hosting and providing access to A/V media. Browse […]
Mount Holyoke College Signs up for WAS
The CDL Web Archiving Service (WAS) (http://was.cdlib.org/) is extremely pleased to welcome Mount Holyoke College as its newest subscriber. Leslie Fields, Head of Archives & Special Collections at Mount Holyoke, explains “after testing several options we determined that WAS was […]
WAS Service Update: January 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities WAS 2.0 Release Work on the new release continues. Significant progress was made in January; testing will begin in early February. Based on the results of testing, we will have a release date. VM […]
HathiTrust January 2013 Update
By Heather Christenson, Project Manager, Mass Digitization The January HathiTrust update was released on 2/15/13, and, in addition to the regular updates on ingest, projects, working groups and new development, the new bylaws have been adopted by the HathiTrust partners. As our year begins, […]
Do You Use Calisphere? Tell Your Story!
CDL’s Calisphere Website is a finalist for an IMLS National Medal Award. Calisphere will be featured on the IMLS Facebook page on February 22. If you’ve used Calisphere in your teaching, reference work, or research and found value in it, […]
Undefined Future Uses
Last week I attended a lecture titled “Computing and the Practice of History” by Dan Cohen, Director of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. He focused on three things to explore how the digital […]
California Digital Library Named National Medal for Museum and Library Service Finalist
We are honored to share that the California Digital Library has been named as a finalist for the 19th annual National Medal for Museum and Library Service for our work on Calisphere. The National Medal is the nation’s highest honor […]
CDL’s Lisa Schiff Named as Co-Chair of ORCID Business Steering Group
Lisa Schiff, a Technical Lead in CDL’s Access & Publishing Group, has been named as co-chair of the ORCID Business Steering Group (BSG). ORCID ( Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is an open, non-profit, community-based effort to provide a registry […]