CDLINFO News
Assessment leads to strategic new directions for OAC and Calisphere
The CDL has recently completed a multi-faceted assessment of the Online Archive of California (OAC) and Calisphere, in order to plan for the continued development of these platforms–especially as relates to hosting and providing access to digitized special collections materials. […]
EZID wins honorable mention in Sautter Award Program
EZID (http://n2t.net/ezid), a tool for creating and maintaining long-term identifiers, has been selected for honorable mention in the Larry L. Sautter Award Program. A key tool for researchers handling data, EZID has been adopted by 8 of the 10 UC […]
DMPTool wins Sautter award
The DMPTool, http://dmptool.org/, has won a Larry L. Sautter Golden Award for Innovation in Information Technology. The Sautter Awards were established by the University of California’s Information Technology Leadership Council in 2000 and are awarded annually to “encourage and recognize innovative […]
Unified Digital Format Registry (UDFR) now available
The University of California Curation Center (UC3) at the CDL is pleased to announce the availability of the Unified Digital Format Registry (UDFR), http://udfr.org/. A deep understanding of digital formats is necessary to support the long-term preservation of digital assets, […]
Welcome Purdue – CIC Members Now Eligible for Web Archiving Service Discount
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 […]
Next-Generation Technical Services Update: June 2012 Review
Six of the Power of Three (http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/sopag/ngts_pots.html) groups (POTs) have been charged and actively working since August 2011. Due to the complexity of “Developing policies and practices to implement a technical infrastructure for collaborative UC digital services,” POT 1 did […]
New Licensed Resource — JSTOR Arts & Sciences X
UC campuses now have access to this electronic resource as part of CDL consortial licenses: JSTOR Arts & Sciences X (All campuses; on the JSTOR platform) [To be completed by the end of 2013] With a minimum of 125 titles […]
Request Service unavailable July 13 at 5:00 PM – July 16 at 8:00 AM
During the weekend of July 13-15, CDL will migrate the VDX interlibrary loan application from CDL servers to servers hosted by OCLC. During the migration, which will begin at 5:00 PM PDT on July 13, the Request, My ILL and […]
New updates to EZID
EZID, the service that makes long-term identifiers easy, just got informative new content: FAQ for (and from) libraries (see Documentation (http://n2t.net/ezid/home/documentation) ) Slides from Joan Starr’s two recent ALA Annual Meeting presentations (see Outreach (http://n2t.net/ezid/home/outreach) ) Libraries and Data Management […]
New Web Archiving Service Partner: Temple University Libraries
CDL is delighted to welcome the Temple University Libraries as a 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 researchers […]