The mass digitization processes as practiced at UC libraries are based on the efficient photographing of books, page -by-page, then using optical character recognition (OCR) software to produce searchable text. To ensure digitization is both speedy and economical, human intervention […]
JSC -CDC Joint Task Force on EBSCO-Gale Database Evaluation (2007) Note: Some documents are password-protected. Charge and member list Final Report 2007 Final Report Appendix B Final Report Appendix C East Asian Digital Resources Task Force (2005-2006) The East Asian […]
[…] and EndNote, etc.). Database and ejournal specific issues as reported by the Resource Liaisons, other UC campus groups, and end -users. Linking issues such as getting vendors to support the OpenURL standard and other items of this nature. Multi-item services […]
The following is a growing list of public-facing technical documentation from CDL's various technologies, with an emphasis on metadata and identifiers.
Founding In 2009 -2010, research libraries, college and university libraries, and library consortia in the western region of the United States joined together, with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, to plan for a shared print archiving program known […]
[…] Digital Library (CDL) California Digital Library UC Office of the President 1111 Franklin Street Oakland, CA 94607 Kerry Scott (2021 -2022) Librarian, Collection Development Department Head University of California, Santa Cruz UC Santa Cruz McHenry Library 1156 High Street Santa […]
[…] University, CDL developed Cobweb, an open source platform to support collaborative collection development for web archives. The shared curatorial decision -making enabled by Cobweb was developed to benefit libraries and archives already engaged in web archiving as well as those […]
[…] the ten University of California campuses. The program acquires scholarly content, manages UC's mass digitization efforts, organizes and supports shared physical library collections, and is responsible for the system -wide negotiation and licensing of shared digital materials for the UC libraries.
