Projects, Programs & Services

In partnership with the University of California libraries and others, the California Digital Library develops new ways to build, share, and preserve digital information through a variety of projects and programs.

The projects below have been integrated into CDL operations to produce end services, programs, or collections. Information about topics the CDL has explored (but has not developed further) can be found on the web sites for various CDL Committees & Groups.

Current Projects

• ARK (Archival Resource Key)
• Assessment and Evaluation
• Calisphere
• Collection Management Initiative (CMI)
• Digital Preservation
• Digital Special Collections
• eScholarship
• eXtensible Text Framework (XTF)
• HathiTrust
• Image Service
• Local History Digital Resources Program (LHDRP)
• Mass Digitization
• Melvyl® Catalog
• Melvyl Recommender Project
• Metasearch Infrastructure Project
• NOID (Nice Opaque IDentifier)
• OAI Harvesting Infrastructure
• Online Archive of California (OAC)
• PID Resolution Service
• Request
• Rights Management
• Shared Cataloging Program (SCP)
• Springer eBooks Pilot
• UC-eLinks
• Web Archiving Project

Past Projects

Note: Information pertaining to many past projects has been archived. For help in accessing archived project information, contact the CDL Helpline.

• A&I Transition: Transition from CDL-hosted databases. 2000—2002
• American West
• Counting California
• Directory of CDL-Licensed Content
• ERMS
• National Science Digital Library (NSDL)
• SearchLight