Category: Publishing, Archives, and Digitization
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 […]
eScholarship Repository Milestones
The eScholarship Repository reached an important milestone last week: the 2,000,000th full-text download from the repository. See < http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/ >. Adoption of the eScholarship Repository is accelerating. It took two years to log the first half-million downloads in the repository, […]
Updated versions of OAC and eScholarship Editions
Last week the CDL released updated versions of the Online Archive of California (OAC) <http://www.oac.cdlib.org/> and eScholarship Editions <http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/>. The eScholarship Editions home page provides more visible access to various browse options. Most of the other noticeable interface changes were […]
New Image Collection Now Available—Hartill Art and Architecture
CDL has added the Hartill Art and Architecture collection of 16,660 images. Hartill is available to all campuses. The images are primarily of architecture and include works from major periods, and monuments such as the Great Pyramids at Giza, Stonehenge, […]
OAC Receives the Society of American Archivist’s Coker Award
On August 19, 2005, at the Society of American Archivist’s annual meeting, the Online Archive of California (OAC) received the C.F.W. Coker Award in recognition of the OAC’s finding aid system, which provides a model for a consortial approach to […]
UC Image Service News: Amico changes
The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) has dissolved as an organization. Our AMICO collection vendor, Cartography Associates has negotiated with the contributing museums to continue to make available most of the original museum collections. The name of the collection will […]
Image Services Rollout and Advisory Committee
The UC Heads of Public Services (HOPS) formed an Image Services Rollout and Advisory Committee (ISRAC) to plan for the rollout of the UC Image Service and to address related issues, such as copyright and collection development in an advisory […]
UC Image Service News
UC’s shared image collections are accessed using Luna Insight. a. Luna Insight Software version 5.1 Released The following are key enhancements to the user interface. A complete list of new features in Insight version 5.1 is available on the Luna […]
1970 US Census Data Now Available
1970 Census (2nd Count) is now available in Counting California This data set contains demographic items tabulated for each person (i.e., 100 percent count of persons), including data on age, race, ethnicity, sex, marital status, and information on schooling, labor […]