CDL Technical Guidelines for Vendors

CDL Technical Requirements

• Technical Requirements for Licensed Resources [PDF]: Technical requirements including major technical issues, CDL's preferred solutions, and the implications for vendors. (March 2011)
• The Technical Requirements document also includes information on the following:
  • Metadata requirements for OpenURLs (section 4.7.1): The set of data elements that must appear in OpenURLs sent to the CDL SFX server and UC-Links
  • Linking requirements for publishers (section 4.6.4): Methods used to link to full content on the vendor site
  • User interface principles for vendors (section 5): Characteristics of a quality user interface
• Resource Selection Criteria [RTF]: Resource evaluation criteria and checklist.
  ( August 2005, update in progress)

UC IP Addresses

• UC Systemwide IP address list: Request a copy of the UC systemwide IP address list.

Vendor Interface Branding

• UC Libraries Interface Branding
• UC-eLinks graphic [GIF]: For use with OpenURL and SFX

Emerging Technologies

• CDL Mobile Support Policy for CDL Licensed Resources: Consideratons for accessing CDL Licensed Resources from mobile devices.