Category: Publishing, Archives, and Digitization
CDL Guidelines for Digital Objects, Version 2.0: Updated requirements for METS unique identifiers
The "CDL Guidelines for Digital Objects, Version 2.0" (CDL GDO) has been updated to reflect modified requirements for METS unique identifiers.
American West Status Report
American West (AmWest) is a three-year William and Flora Hewlett Foundation grant to assemble a virtual collection drawing from the resources of major research institutions. Learn more at http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/amwest/.
JARDA Site Re-Designed
The Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives (JARDA) was recently re-designed and updated to be an integral part of the Calisphere Web site. JARDA’s more than 10,000 government and personal photographs, official documents, transcribed oral histories, paintings, diaries, and other primary sources bring you inside the story of Japanese American incarceration during World War II.
Mass Digitization: Open Content Alliance and the UC Libraries
On December 6, 2006, Microsoft released the beta Live Search Books (http://books.live.com), providing a new portal to access UC libraries books scanned by the Internet Archive (IA) for the Open Content Alliance. An initial review of Microsoft’s service was provided […]
Local History Digital Resources Featured in Calisphere and the Online Archive of California (OAC)
More than 3,600 digitized primary resources from 19 California cultural heritage institutions are now featured in the CDL’s Calisphere (http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/) and Online Archive of California (http://www.oac.cdlib.org/) websites. The new online collections showcase local history materials, including photographs, ephemera, posters, maps, […]
Release 1 of the Web Archiving Service
The Web-at-Risk, a CDL Digital Preservation Group project, achieved a major milestone with Release 1 of the Web Archiving Service (WAS) to a pilot group of project curators. Development of the WAS marks a crucial step in enabling the libraries […]
Librarian Toolkits for Scholarly Communication
This summer the Scholarly Communications Officers completed work on three toolkits to help librarians when discussing scholarly communication issues with faculty and each other. One toolkit deals with the economic issues surrounding scholarly communication, a second deals with the role […]
Calisphere: UC and California Department of Education Joint Press Conference
On Monday, August 21, University of California officials joined California State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell in Sacramento to announce the official launch of Calisphere. See the press release at: http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/2006/aug21a.html. Additional information about Calisphere is available on the […]
UC Libraries Partner With Google To Digitize Books
Yesterday, the UC libraries announced their partnership with Google to digitize books from the libraries’ collections. See the press release at: http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/2006/aug09.html. Additional information about the partnership is also available on the CDL website: [http://www.cdlib.org/news/google.htm].
Calisphere Web Site Launched
Calisphere is now available at: http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu. Calisphere is a free public gateway to thousands of digitized primary sources – including photographs, documents, newspaper clippings, works of art – from UC museums and libraries and other cultural heritage institutions across California. […]