Grants and Partnerships
The California Digital Library's success in delivering digital collections and services for teaching, learning, and research has been achieved through collaboration with the UC campuses and state, national, and international partners.
Our record of acquiring grants to explore strategic innovations in digital libraries has resulted in broader online access to materials held in UC libraries and museums and contributed to the development of online resources and web archiving tools. Current grant-funded and partnership activities include the following:
Collection Development and Management
Heading WEST: Toward a Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST): This grant is funding an initiative to organize a distributed, retrospective print repository service, and includes partners such as the University of Washington, the University of Oregon, the University of Arizona, and others.
UC Libraries/JSTOR Paper Repository: The University of California Libraries and JSTOR (Journal Storage) contracted to create a paper repository of over 14,000,000 pages (500+ titles) from journal runs across all UC campuses. This "dim" archive (accessible to only UC faculty, staff, students and JSTOR) has one ideal & complete set of every contract JSTOR title.
UC Mass Digitization Partners with Google and Internet Archive: Millions of books from the UC Libraries are being scanned through our participation in mass digitization projects. These projects expand the UC Libraries ability to give faculty, students and the public access to information and support our exploration of new service models. The UC Libraries are currently participating in two mass digitization projects: Google Book Search, and digitization via the Internet Archive.
Digital Preservation (University of California Curation Center)
Center for Bibliographic Studies and Research (CBSR), UC Riverside: The Digital Preservation Program works collaboratively with the CBSR staff to develop methods to more efficiently manage over 1.5 million pages that are part of the California Newspaper Project. Currently we are evaluating what is the most cost effective and efficient method to store and preserve the content and how to simultaneously maintain access copies.
DataOne: Researchers at the University of California have partnered with dozens of other universities and agencies to create DataONE, a global data access and preservation network for earth and environmental scientists that will support breakthroughs in environmental research. DataONE (Data Observation Network for Earth) is one of two $20 million awards as part of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) DataNet program.
JHOVE2: With funding from the Library of Congress under its National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program (NDIIPP), the CDL, Portico, and Stanford University are collaborating on a two-year project to develop and deploy the next-generation JHOVE architecture that will provide enhanced performance, streamlined APIs, and significant new features that will help digital libraries ingest content.
Media Vault Program, UC Berkeley: The Media Vault Program (MVP) is an interdisciplinary, community-based program that promotes archival digital scholarly workflows, enables digital information conservation, provides self-service management of digital collections, and assures a digital environment which supports research, teaching and public service. The Digital Preservation Program works closely with the MVP to develop strategies for the long-term preservation of the data.
University and Jepson Herbaria, University of California, Berkeley: The California Digital Library provided support to the UC/Jeps to develop the Consortium of California Herbaria (CCH). Sixteen institutions serve data and metadata from over 1,000,000 dried specimens of vascular plants collected in California from the late 1800s to the present. Digital Preservation Program will support the investigation of solutions that ensure the long-term access, management and storage of the Herbaria’s digital collections.
More preservation partnerships …
Digital Special Collections
Local History Digital Resources Project: Supported by a Library Services and Technology Act grant administered by the California State Library, this multi-year project is developing a model to aggregate, preserve, and provide permanent public access to local history digital resources via the Online Archive of California.
Publishing
UCPubS: In a joint effort to respond to substantial and often unmet publishing needs within the UC community, the University of California Press and the California Digital Library have established the University of California Publishing Services (UCPubS) to support the dissemination of scholarly research.
University of California Libraries and Systemwide Initiatives
HathiTrust: As founding members of HathiTrust, the CDL and UC libraries are helping develop a shared digital library to expand access to digitized books and ensure their preservation, while developing services of interest to scholars.
CDL participation: Digital Preservation Program (UC3), Collections Program, and Discovery & Delivery Program
Next Generation Melvyl via OCLC WorldCat Local: In discussions about the Bibliographic Services Task Force (BSTF) report in 2006, UC library experts and faculty affirmed that improvements to UC systems were essential. The University Librarians decided to investigate partnership opportunities with OCLC to explore the next generation of the Melvyl union catalog based on a University of California pilot version of Worldcat.org.
CDL participation: Discovery & Delivery Program
Shared Research Computing Pilot: This pilot will demonstrate how shared research computing and storage clusters residing in regional data centers at UC can provide computing services to principal investigators in a more cost-effective manner.
CDL participation: CDL Executive Director on Advisory Board, UC Curation Center will be exploring services for this pilot.
UC Institute of Global Health: Information, Communication and Technology Task Force: Working in close coordination with the Education Task Force, this group is developing plans for how information, communication and technology will be developed, implemented and managed in support of the educational, research and service activities of the UC Institute of Global Health. UC libraries are already providing a number of services to support the mission of the Institute and are exploring additional needs.
UCverse: The multimedia UCverse portal project will enable anyone anywhere to virtually “attend” UC, the world’s largest public university, and participate in discussions of topical issues, focused initially on climate change.
CDL participation: Digital Special Collections
