<font size="2"><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">[Forwarding from the U of California. --Peter Suber.]<br></font></font><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br>
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br>
Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010<br>
Contact: Ellen Meltzer<br>
<span style="color:black">Phone: (510) 987-9214</span><br>
Email: </span><a href="mailto:ellen.meltzer@ucop.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">ellen.meltzer@ucop.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><br>
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<b>California Digital Library (CDL) services: expansively global, deeply local </b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:14.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The
California Digital Library’s (CDL; </span><a href="http://www.cdlib.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">http://www.cdlib.org/</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">) success in
elevating the digital library to be expansively global and deeply local has
been demonstrated this fall in its launching of an array of pioneering
resources that support activities in all corners of research and scholarship. </span></p>
<p style="line-height:14.0pt"><b>Easier searching
of digitized books</b></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The
University of California has reached a significant milestone in digitizing over
3 million volumes from its libraries’ collections. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> “In
lean budget times, the UC libraries have made remarkable progress in getting
our legacy print collections digitized,” said UC Berkeley University
Librarian Thomas Leonard. “Search engines, especially Google, have
funded this, and non-profits have also offered essential help. At every level
of our library we have taken advantage of this opportunity at a pace that, only
a few years ago, would have seemed impossible... Pooling our efforts with other
universities in the U.S., we have together reached the 7 million mark for
volumes digitized. This greater digital library represents a line of volumes
stretching from San Francisco to Sacramento.” </span></p>
<p style="line-height:14.0pt">These digitized
works are also available via a national consortial partnership: the HathiTrust
(<a href="http://www.hathitrust.org/" target="_blank">http://www.hathitrust.org/</a>), which
contains collections from libraries digitized by Google, the Internet Archive,
and other projects. To make the University of California’s digitized
books more visible and to build services to support scholars across partner
institutions, CDL’s mass digitization team
(<a href="http://www.cdlib.org/services/collections/massdig/" target="_blank">http://www.cdlib.org/services/collections/massdig/</a>) has created an array of
HathiTrust search boxes (<a href="http://www.hathitrust.org/widgets" target="_blank">http://www.hathitrust.org/widgets</a>). These tools make
it possible to search the digitized collections in the HathiTrust directly from
web pages, blogs, learning management systems and more. </p>
<p style="line-height:14.0pt">In another
initiative, CDL’s discovery and delivery (<a href="http://www.cdlib.org/services/d2d/" target="_blank">http://www.cdlib.org/services/d2d/</a>)
group has created a way to link to HathiTrust digital resources using SFX with
the broader HathiTrust partner community. HathiTrust partner libraries that
use Ex Libris’ SFX scholarly linking and implement the new target will be
able to include a link to HathiTrust books in their SFX menu window. The
result is that UC library users will be able to see immediately whether a
HathiTrust book is available electronically and if so, link to the full text in
the HathiTrust Digital Library.</p>
<p style="line-height:14.0pt"><b>Local History
Mapped</b></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Students,
teachers, and people interested in California history can explore an exciting
new feature called Local History Mapped on Calisphere
(<a href="http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/" target="_blank">http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/</a>), the CDL’s free
website of primary sources. A project of Digital Special Collections (</span><a href="http://www.cdlib.org/services/dsc/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">http://www.cdlib.org/services/dsc/</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">), Local History
Mapped showcases hundreds of historical images on five maps of the state, along
with current views of the same locations (</span><a href="http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/mapped/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/mapped/</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">). Associated
with each map is a selection of images and a historical essay with background
on a theme. A “teacher’s toolbox” is also provided to help
K-12 educators incorporate the maps into lesson plans and class activities. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">"The
mapping feature is wonderful," said San Francisco volunteer-teacher Tammy
McMillen. "I am working on a unit on bridges for 2nd and 3rd graders. They
will be building and studying them. I love the idea of taking the kids to
the library, where we have 20 computers, to let them explore the theme of
transportation in California using the online maps. There are some great
photos of bridges that will really augment the lesson."</span></p>
<p style="line-height:14.0pt">Calisphere includes
more than 200,000 images and text from library, archive and museum collections
across California. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:14.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">A powerful access platform</span></b></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">In
September, CDL’s publishing group
(<a href="http://www.cdlib.org/services/publishing" target="_blank">http://www.cdlib.org/services/publishing</a>) launched the eXtensible Text
Framework (XTF) website (</span><a href="http://xtf.cdlib.org/),making" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">http://xtf.cdlib.org/</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">) making this
service all the more accessible. XTF is an open source platform for
institutions and individuals to provide access to digital content. It is used
as the primary access technology for the CDL’s digital
collections—including eScholarship and the Online Archive of
California—and projects worldwide like The Encyclopedia of Chicago and
Indiana University’s The Chymistry of Isaac Newton. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> “For
the Digital Library of Georgia, XTF is the tool of choice for indexing,
searching, and displaying text-based resources,” said P. Toby Graham,
deputy university librarian and director, Hargrett Rare Book & Manuscript
Library director. “The Digital Library of Georgia delivers 400,000 pages
of historical newspapers via XTF. We have customized XTF databases to connect
users to digital collections of historical maps, state publications, original
documents, and historical broadsides…. XTF is highly versatile, robust,
and with features like faceted browsing of search results it meets visitors'
expectations for usability. The CDL's ongoing development and support of XTF is
a great service to the digital library community.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">XTF’s
high degree of extensibility and performance, even for large documents and
collections, frees implementers to focus on building sophisticated interfaces
for their digital object collections. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:14.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">A
tutorial for XTF is available: </span><a href="http://xtf.cdlib.org/getting-started-tutorials/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">http://xtf.cdlib.org/getting-started-tutorials/</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:14.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">New digital curation tools</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:14.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Another
CDL group, the University of California Curation Center
(<a href="http://www.cdlib.org/services/uc3/" target="_blank">http://www.cdlib.org/services/uc3/</a>), also launched several new resources this
fall. These include Merritt EZID, JHOVE2, and Data Management Guidelines.
Merritt, a nod to CDL’s neighbor, Lake Merritt, (</span><a href="http://www.cdlib.org/services/uc3/merritt/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">http://www.cdlib.org/services/uc3/merritt/</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">), is a tool for
members of the UC community to manage, archive and share their content safely,
persistently and for the long term. EZID (pronounced
“ee-zee-eye-dee”) (</span><a href="http://www.cdlib.org/services/uc3/ezid/index.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">http://www.cdlib.org/services/uc3/ezid/index.html</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">) provides
researchers a way to persistently identify and access a scholar’s
research, including datasets, which is critical to the long-term distribution
and availability of the work. JHOVE2
(<a href="https://confluence.ucop.edu/display/JHOVE2Info/Home" target="_blank">https://confluence.ucop.edu/display/JHOVE2Info/Home</a>) is improved software for those
managing digital repositories. Finally, UC Curation Center has created a
detailed description of best practices for managing and sharing data and
meeting funding agency requirements (</span><a href="http://www.cdlib.org/services/uc3/datamanagement/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">http://www.cdlib.org/services/uc3/datamanagement/</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">). UC campus
colleagues have also contributed to the enhancements of these tools. Combined,
these services allow researchers to deposit, save, share and discover their
content and data. </span></p>
<p style="line-height:14.0pt">These innovative CDL
initiatives advance the ability of students, faculty, and teachers at UC and
beyond to engage in work across the research spectrum. </p>
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