Category: Publishing, Archives, and Digitization
eScholarship Quarterly Reports – A Fascinating Snapshot
By Justin Gonder, eScholarship Operations Coordinator Each quarter, the CDL sends a report to each campus Scholarly Communication Officer (SCO) with information about that campus’s use of eScholarship as well as total usage systemwide. Instead of sending the reports out […]
The Progress of Preservation
I was very pleased by the nice recognition from Library of Congress’s “Top Ten Digital Preservation Developments of 2012” of three projects CDL has been involved in: The DataUp Project. The University of California Curation Center at the California Digital […]
DataUp, End of Term Web Archive Cited Among Top Ten Digital Preservation Developments of 2012
Two CDL projects are among a list of top ten digital preservation developments of 2012, according to Bill LeFurgy, Digital Initiatives Manager at the Library of Congress, DataUp and the End of Term Web Archive (http://eotarchive.cdlib.org/2012.html) are included in this […]
HathiTrust December 2012 Update
By Heather Christenson, Project Manager, Mass Digitization December’s HathiTrust update is now available. There is a new feature of the “Most Accessed Volumes in HathiTrust.” Check out what our users are examining, from Korean American investigations to Forest Leaves. A […]
WAS Service Update – November/December 2012
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities WAS 2.0 Release re-scheduled for 2013. One of the key, new features of WAS 2.0 will be the Solr index. It will bring faster and more accurate search results, advanced search features, and a more […]
HathiTrust Research Center Video Now Available
Check out this information video about the HathiTrust Research Center: Learn how researchers are recognizing previously invisible patterns in literature, creating visualizations and sharing results.
New! Cochems photos show the faces and places of Southern California
By Sherri Berger, Digital Special Collections Program Coordinator at CDL, and Michelle Light, Head of Special Collections, Archives, and Digital Scholarship at UC Irvine Libraries Visitors to the Online Archive of California (OAC) and Calisphere can now explore more than […]
HathiTrust November 2012 Update
By Heather Christenson, Project Manager, Mass Digitization November was a busy month at HathiTrust. HT prepared technical systems to offer access to out of print and brittle works at partner institutions; worked with several institutions on deposit of locally-digitized materials; […]
New environmental history collections now available through the OAC
The CDL is pleased to announce the availability of over 41 important collections, held by nine institutions throughout California, which document environmental history within and beyond the state. The availability of these previously “hidden” archival collections represents the successful conclusion […]
New! Contributor Showcases on Calisphere
Calisphere contributors have a new way to highlight their digital images and texts with the recently released “showcase” feature. These pages, unique to each of Calisphere’s 120 contributing libraries, archives, and museums, provide increased opportunities for visitors to explore the […]