Month: November 2013
WEST at ALA Midwinter 2014 in Philadelphia: Please RSVP if you plan to attend
There will be a WEST Member meeting at ALA Midwinter in Philadelphia, Sunday, January 26, 2014 from 1-2:30 pm in MAR-Franklin 08. WEST members are encouraged to attend to hear updates about the program. We hope to see you there! […]
SCP’s New PID Service
One of the tools used by the Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) is the PID (Persistent Identifier) Service, which allows SCP to create PIDs for systemwide-licensed resources. PIDs act as substitute URLs for a resource and the PID service allows SCP […]
EZID Service Update: October 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities EZID’s user interface (UI) was enhanced allowing submission of DataCite XML for the new version 3.0 required and recommended metadata elements. Submitting as much of the recommended metadata as possible is very important. […]
WAS Service Update: October 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Infrastructure. Work continues on infrastructure upgrades to search and indexing. New public content 1. University of Illinois Urbana‐Champaign World Sustainable Development Web Archive. This archive aims to preserve web content published by Non‐Governmental Organizations […]
DMPTool Service Update: October 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Development status: You can follow our progress on the wiki at: https://bitbucket.org/dmptool/main/wiki/DMPTool2Project. We had 396 new users in October, making it the biggest month for the DMPTool. In total, there are almost 7,000 registered […]
Merritt Service Update: October 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Datashare is now available for UCSF researchers at http://datashare.ucsf.edu. This is a collaborative project of the UCSF Libraries, CDL and UCSF CTSI. The site has two main components: 1) the catalog of available datasets […]
DataUp Service Update: October 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities The DataUp project team is reviewing applications to hire a full‐time developer to work on DataUp Version 2, to be located at the San Diego Supercomputing Center. This new phase of the project […]
Managing the Print Archiving Process: Building a WEST Archive
Winter is a busy time of year for WEST. In addition to gathering holdings data for cycle 4 collections analysis, our Archive Builders are also building cycle 3 print archives to hold in storage. Your institution may have recently received […]
Staff in Print—Carly Strasser and Laura Krier
CDL is pleased to announce that a new book, Data Management for Libraries: A LITA Guide, by Carly Strasser, UC3 Data Curation Project Manager, and former CDL Discovery & Delivery staffer, Laura Krier, was just published and is available at […]
Eight New Web Archives Go Live
There are eight new archives, from three institutions now publicly available in WAS. The archives include a collection of NGO sites from around the world that focus on environmental and economic sustainability, over 50 NGOs that address local environmental conditions in China, […]