Category: Publishing, Archives, and Digitization
WAS Service Update – September 2012
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Fall 2012 releases update WAS 2.0: We are continuing the quality assurance testing for the WAS 2.0 release; among the areas of focus are the new solr index; duplicate reduction (which will substantially reduced the […]
HathiTrust September 2012 Update
By Heather Christenson, Project Manager, Mass Digitization September’s HathiTrust update includes late breaking news on the decision to dismiss the lawsuit brought by the Authors Guild and others against HathiTrust. Top news items for September include the recent HathiTrust Research […]
UC Librarians in Print
Five UC librarians have coauthored an article in the Journal of eScience Librarianship, “A Collaborative Framework for Data Management Services: The Experience of the University of California”. The abstract describes the article’s content as follows: The National Science Foundation and […]
Invitation to Data Curation Workshop — North and South
By Patricia Cruse, Director, UC3 Researchers now must manage and share their data as part of research grants, and are looking for assistance in meeting these requirements for data curation. Libraries, data centers, offices of research and other organizations within […]
WAS Service Update – August 2012
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities WAS User’s Group meeting On Friday, August 10 in conjunction with the Society of American Archivists meeting in San Diego, the first WAS User’s Group was held. There were 16 attendees from 10 different […]
HathiTrust August 2012 Update
HathiTrust had a busy summer, as described in its August update. Reported in this issue is an array of new and ongoing activities. For example, later this year HathiTrust will begin accepting the “library walk-in” Shibboleth attribute from partner institutions […]
California Digital Library Joins the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association
By Catherine Mitchell, Director, Access & Publishing The California Digital Library is pleased to announce its new membership in the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA). Founded in 2008 to “represent the interests of Open Access (OA) journal publishers globally […]
WAS Service Update – July 2012
WAS News Tracy Seneca, the WAS service manager and project leader since its inception in 2008, is leaving the California Digital Library for a position as Digital Projects Librarian at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Tracy has been a […]
California Digital Library Announces Release of XTF Version 3.1
The California Digital Library (CDL) is pleased to announce the release of version 3.1 of XTF (http://xtf.cdlib.org/), an open source, highly flexible software application that supports the search, browse and display of heterogeneous digital content. XTF provides efficient and practical […]
Staff Transition at the Web Archiving Service
To: Web Archiving Service Users and Community From: Tracy Seneca, Web Archiving Service Manager I’m writing to announce that in early August I will be moving on to an exciting new opportunity as the Digital Services Librarian at the University […]