Would you like to scan the contents of a book at a glance? This is now possible with HathiTrust’s upgrade to its pageturner functionality. The recent enhancements were developed collaboratively by CDL’s Stephanie Collett and staff at the University of […]
By Joan Starr, EZID Service Manager The EZID User Interface now displays a QR code representing the URL form of the DOI or ARK. The QR Code appears on the Manage tab. If the identifier is doi:10.1234/FOO, for example, the […]
CDL is delighted to welcome the Purdue University Libraries as the most recent Web Archiving Service (WAS) partner. WAS enables librarians and archivists to build archives of harvested websites, and to continue their role as stewards of cultural heritage materials for […]
Do you manage or help others manage any kinds of digital objects, such as texts, data sets, terms, or images? Do you need an easy solution to citing and providing access to this kind of work? EZID makes it simple […]
The California Digital Library (CDL) is pleased to announce the release of version 3.1 of XTF (http://xtf.cdlib.org/), an open source, highly flexible software application that supports the search, browse and display of heterogeneous digital content. XTF provides efficient and practical […]
Five UC librarians have coauthored an article in the Journal of eScience Librarianship, “A Collaborative Framework for Data Management Services: The Experience of the University of California”. The abstract describes the article’s content as follows: The National Science Foundation and […]
September & October Activities We conducted an identifier clean-up exercise and were able to reduce substantially the incidence of broken and bad links. To all who assisted, we are thankful for your participation in the effort to insure […]
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities At DataCite’s General Assembly meeting this year in Cologne, EZID was honored with the 2012 Gold Award for assigning more than 250,000 DOIs (digital object identifiers) in one year. This reflects EZID’s growth in […]
Two CDL projects are among a list of top ten digital preservation developments of 2012, according to Bill LeFurgy, Digital Initiatives Manager at the Library of Congress, DataUp and the End of Term Web Archive (http://eotarchive.cdlib.org/2012.html) are included in this […]
By Adolfo Tarango, Head, Systemwide Collection Services December was a short work month but some significant distributions were made. For monographs, the major distributions were to SPIE Conference Proceedings (213 titles), CRC Press (208 titles), Knovel (204 titles), Gale Mexican […]
