Category: Publishing, Archives, and Digitization
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. […]
Revised Image Displays in the Online Archive of California (OAC) and The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake & Fire Web Sites
The CDL recently completed an upgrade to its instance of the eXtensible Text Framework (XTF), which serves as the search and display system for the OAC. As part of this process, we launched updated versions of our displays for image […]
Calisphere Web Site: Release Date Scheduled for June
The CDL is undertaking work to redesign the “CaliforniaDigitalLibrary.org” web site. The new site will be called Calisphere and is scheduled for release in June. Redesign decisions have been based on a variety of user assessment findings, including user studies […]
CDL Guidelines for Digital Objects, Version 2.0: Draft Release
The CDL and Digital Library Services Advisory Group (DLSAG) are pleased to announce the release of the draft CDL Guidelines for Digital Objects, Version 2.0 (CDL GDO), available online in HTML and PDF format at <http://www.cdlib.org/inside/diglib/guidelines/>. We welcome your feedback […]