Month: May 2006
Metasearch Infrastructure Project Reaches Key Milestone
A milestone in creating a UC campus configurable metasearch tool has been reached: an alpha, or very first testing stage, version of UC’s “Find It” metasearch tool was unveiled and reviewed by two groups of UC librarians on May 4 […]
UC Libraries Presentation at Board of Regents Meeting
On Thursday, May 18, Dan Greenstein, Associate Vice Provost and University Librarian for the CDL, gave a presentation at the UC Board of Regents meeting about the accomplishments the UC libraries and their staffs have achieved through innovation and collaboration. […]
Updated CDL Technical Requirements for Vendors
The CDL’s technical requirements for database and ejournal vendors were updated in April 2006. These documents reflect new or revised sections on information security, preservation, metasearch, and authentication via Shibboleth. They are intended to be shared with database and ejournal […]
CopyrightMD
The California Digital Library is making available the first draft of its XML schema for copyright metadata, CopyrightMD. This schema grew out of work at the CDL to address the integration of rights information into the digital library workflow. During […]
NISC’s “Africa-Wide NiPAD” replaces “African Studies” and incorporates “South African Studies”
By Ruby Bell-Gam (Resource Liaison), UCLA NISC is discontinuing its “African Studies” database, replacing it with the more comprehensive “Africa-Wide NiPAD”, which includes all of the content of two NISC databases, “African Studies” and “South African Studies”. The new database […]