Category: Publishing, Archives, and Digitization
California Digital Library Standards Documents
The CDL has recently adopted several guidelines for the use of standards in its collections and services which it supports and hosts. Notable among them are guidelines for the creation and encoding of digital objects, and best practices for the […]
January 2001 Release of the CDL
The January 2001 release, marking the beginning of the CDL’s third year of operation, includes new content and enhancements of existing services. The release is possible through the efforts of CDL and campus staff. We are very grateful to our […]
OAC Best Practices Guidelines for Encoding New Finding Aids
The CDL OAC Working Group (OACWG) subcommittee on Metadata Standards has recently developed and released two important documents: the OAC Best Practices Guidelines for Encoding New Finding Aids Draft 11/28/00 (BPG) and the Minimal Level OAC MARC Record for CDL […]
eScholarship Update
CDL’s eScholarship program is underway [http://escholarship.cdlib.org/]. Officially launched with the July 2000 release, the eScholarship initiative is now actively engaged with more than a dozen scholarly communities and partners. Together we are working to design and develop the organizational and […]
California Counts Prototype Update
Background California Counts, CDL’s planned gateway to social science data, is Phase I of CDL’s government information initiative. California Counts will provide a single, easy-to-use, WWW interface through which users can easily find, combine, display, and use data. The California […]
California Counts – Government Information Initiative
California Counts, Phase I of the Government Information Initiative (highlighted in December 7, 1999 CDLINFO: http://www.cdlib.org/news/cdlinfo/cdlinfo120799.html#2) is underway. The CDL obtained a portion of the funding for the California Counts prototype through an interagency agreement with the California State Library […]
Online Archive of California — New Support via Grants from LSTA, IMLS
A $360,000 grant from the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA), administered by the California State Library, will enable the creation of the Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive (JARDA). A cooperative project involving nine OAC participants — UC Berkeley, UCLA, […]
OAC Documentation
A section on the Online Archive of California (OAC) has been added to the Shared Collections Web page at [www.cdlib.org/libstaff/sharedcoll/oac] and contains background information, working documents, and meeting notes of the OAC Working Group: Online Archive of California (OAC) [PDF] […]
Online Archive of California Developments
The OAC Advisory Working Group recommended two thematic areas for digitizing archival material across UC campuses. SOPAG and the University Librarians endorsed the recommendation of a collaborative focus on the arts in California and ethnic communities in California for primary […]
Grant Support Received for Online Archive of California
In September 1998, LSTA awarded funds to the California Digital Library (CDL) to continue development of its Online Archive of California (OAC). The Library Services and Technology Act states as an objective the promotion of innovative programs in the ever […]