Month: April 2011
Heather Christenson In Print
CDL’s Heather Christenson has published an article in Library Resources & Technical Services (LRTS) entitled, “HathiTrust; A Research Library at Web Scale.” The article, in vol. 52 (2), pages 93-102, discusses the challenges digitized collections present to research libraries. Congratulations, Heather!
Five UC Campuses now Shibboleth Enabled, Making Downloading of HathiTrust Materials Easier
Five University of California campuses, UC Berkeley, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced and San Diego, are now Shibboleth enabled for access to HathiTrust advanced services. Shibboleth is open source software for web single sign-on across or within organizational boundaries. It allows […]
Preview of Forthcoming Web Archiving Service Features
A recording of our recent web-conference session on Forthcoming Web Archiving Service Features: QA Tools, Duplicate Reduction and Search Enhancements (http://cc.readytalk.com/play?id=5xb4sl) is now available. This 60 minute demo covers: WAS Roadmap: new features in context of overall direction for the […]
Moving Forward with Next Generation Melvyl
The Next Generation Melvyl Executive Team (Karen Butter, UCSF [Chair]; Luc Declerck, UCSD [Implementation Team], Laine Farley, CDL; Patricia Martin, CDL [Chair, Implementation Team] and Gary Strong, UCLA) and Implementation Team (Sara Davidson, UCM; Luc Declerck, UCSD [Member of the Executive Team]; […]
Center for Research Libraries (CRL) Records now more prominent in NGM
From the inception of the Next Generation Melvyl (NGM) Pilot, the University of California libraries have wanted to display Center for Research Libraries (CRL) records as part of the UC collection. CDL, CRL, and OCLC have worked together to do […]
Web Archiving Service: Blog Posts and Articles
We’d like to alert you to two recent write-ups of the Web Archiving Service (http://was.cdlib.org) that cover both an initial evaluation and an in-depth examination of extensive use of the service. Chris Prom provides a Web Archiving Service Evaluation in […]
Second position for Principal Metadata Analyst at CDL
Job Opportunity at the California Digital Library (CDL): Be part of a metadata team shaping the future of discovery & delivery. Position: Principal Metadata Analyst (2 positions: 1 filled, 1 open) About you You are an experienced metadata analyst. You […]
California Digital Library Announces Release of XTF Version 3.0
The California Digital Library (CDL) is pleased to announce the release of version 3.0 of XTF (http://xtf.cdlib.org/), an open source, highly flexible software application that supports the search, browse and display of heterogeneous digital content. XTF provides efficient and practical […]
Recently Released: University of Michigan Web Archive
Web Archiving Service (http://was.cdlib.org/) partners at the Bentley Historical Library of the University of Michigan have made their comprehensive archive of university websites available to the public. The University of Michigan Web Archive (http://webarchives.cdlib.org/a/universityofmichigan) contains 490 archived sites from the umich.edu domain, […]
April Web Archiving Service Workshops (14th, 19th & 25th)
The California Digital Library will be offering two introductory Web Archiving Service sessions in April and another session to preview forthcoming enhancements to the service. Web Archiving Service Introduction Sessions On April 14th and again on the 25th at 9:30 […]