Category: Publishing, Archives, and Digitization
Completion of UC-Internet Archive on-site mass digitization projects
In 2005, the UC Libraries entered into a ground-breaking partnership with the Internet Archive to digitize public domain book collections from the University of California Libraries. Today, five years and over 64 million pages later, we announce the conclusion of this phase of our Internet Archive collaboration and celebrate the work we have accomplished together.
New on OAC and Calisphere: Architectural Photographer Maynard L. Parker
A guide to the papers of noted Los Angeles-based architectural photographer Maynard L. Parker (1901-1976) is now available on Calisphere and the Online Archive of California (OAC).
New Joint Venture from the CDL’s eScholarship and UC Press
a joint effort to respond to substantial and often unmet publishing needs and opportunities within the UC community, the University of California Press and the California Digital Library are pleased to announce University of California Publishing Services (UCPubS).
Public Access to Web Archiving Service Goes Live
The California Digital Library is pleased to announce public access to the archives built with the Web Archiving Service. The tools that CDL provides to capture, curate and preserve websites now also enable librarians to publish the archives they've created for the benefit of researchers and the general public.
New Online Archive of California (OAC) is Live!
: The Online Archive of California (OAC) has a new look, advanced functionality, and significantly more content. Visit it now!
HathiTrust Update
Through the diligent efforts of a CDL and University of Michigan team, UC's Google-digitized books are now flowing into the HathiTrust repository, and ingest is progressing well. At the time of this writing, the number of volumes available via the HathiTrust beta catalog is 136,125, and this number grows weekly.
Irvine Adds to UC Shared Images in ARTstor
UC Shared Images in ARTstor continue to grow with the addition of over 600 images from the Irvine campus, with approximately 1,200 more to be added later in May. The new UCI collection is available, along with collections from UCB, UCSB, and UCSC, from the ARTstor home page under "Institutional Collections".
New UC Shared Images Metadata Guidelines
The UC Shared Images program recently revised and published its guidelines for shareable metadata. Version 2.0 of the "Metadata Submission Guidelines" (MSG) is now available on Inside CDL.
Calisphere — share your University of California-created web sites with us
Do you have a web site you'd like to share that has been created by a UC campus faculty member, librarian, or researcher? Let us know! We'd like to add it to Calisphere.
Digital Special Collections welcomes Sherri Berger
CDL is pleased to welcome Sherri Berger to the Digital Special Collections (DSC) group.