Category: Publishing, Archives, and Digitization
HathiTrust April 2012 Update
This month’s HathiTrust update is now available. The update reports that “California Digital Library created prototype exports of the metadata that will be used to populate HathiTrust’s tab-delimited inventory files (“hathifiles”) and bibliographic catalog. Timing tests for these exports were […]
RecordEXPRESS makes it easier to contribute collection guides to the OAC
CDL is pleased to announce the release of a new tool called RecordEXPRESS, which is designed to make it even easier for Online Archive of California (OAC) contributors to describe collections and contribute records to the OAC. RecordEXPRESS is a […]
Your Faculty is Publishing in Open Access!
What do “Pursuing happiness: The architecture of sustainable change” and “The World Distribution of Household Wealth” have in common? They’re both UC faculty-published articles on UC’s flourishing open access platform, eScholarship. eScholarship supports the publication of UC-affiliated conference papers, articles, […]
Mellon Supports Phase 2 of Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC)
The CDL is pleased to announce that the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is supporting a second phase of the Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC) project, which will dramatically expand the range of source data for research and demonstration purposes: […]
HathiTrust March 2012 Update – New Board of Governors, CDL Zephir testing and more
In March, the new members of HathiTrust’s Board of Governors were announced; working group and committee reports are included. The California Digital Library achieved a milestone in March, loading all bibliographic records submitted by HathiTrust contributing institutions into the Zephir […]
HathiTrust Update for February – Full-text search, Bib Data Management and more
You can learn about the twelve candidates running for HathiTrust’s Board of Governors, find out about local digitization projects, and discover what the CDL is doing with Bibliographic Data Management and dictionary-building work in the HathiTrust update on February 2012 […]
Web Archiving Service Welcomes Emory University Libraries
CDL Welcomes Emory University Libraries as the newest Web Archiving Service (http://was.cdlib.org/) partner! Kate Donovan Jarvis, Emory’s University Archivist and Erika Farr, Coordinator for Digital Archives will be using the service to archive the University’s websites. They will also use […]
Web Archivists: Call for Speakers is Open for Internet Librarian 2012
The call for submissions is now open for the 16th annual Internet Librarian conference, taking place October 22-24 in Monterey, California. The conference focuses on libraries’ use of internet technologies and covers a wide range of topics. Just a few of […]
Web Archives: Information on Recent Technical Difficulties
From: Tracy Seneca – Web Archiving Service Manager, California Digital Library UPDATE: Wednesday February 21, 2012 The Web Archiving Service (http://was.cdlib.org/) developers have completed their work to improve the performance of the public WAS archives. Developers are now resuming work […]
CDL Supports: Building the UC Irvine and UC Davis Campus Web Archives
A growing number of organizations are using the California Digital Library’s Web Archiving Service (http://was.cdlib.org/) to build comprehensive archives of large university campuses. The web has become the primary mode of communication and publication for campus events and issues, and […]