The University of California San Diego Libraries Digital Library Program (DLP) encourages, facilitates, and supports the collaborative creation, management, delivery, and long-term preservation of digital assets in support of the Libraries' mission and goals.
The Program reports to the Associate University Librarian, Collection Services and is currently staffed by a the Head of Collections Support Services Department, a full-time Digital Library Program Analyst and a full-time Digital Library Project Manager. Staff from the Libraries' Information Technology Department provide technical support to the Program. Metadata analysis, crosswalks, and METS profile creation are provided by metadata specialists from the Metadata Services Department. Content is built collaboratively with collection curators. Public services librarians participate in usability testing and provide feedback and advice on the design of interfaces and services. In addition, several staff members from other units provide expertise and advice, as needed, on digital rights, website design and management, training, and assessment.
The UCSD Libraries' Digital Asset Management System (DAMS) is a locally developed digital repository designed to store and manage digital assets of UCSD.
The DAMS is an expression of our XDRE (eXtensible Digital Resource Environment) framework. It uses:
The DAMS' flexible architecture can accept a variety of data formats, schemas and web services when ingesting digital assets. It stores digital content files and allows for the creation, indexing and searching of associated metadata to locate and retrieve the content files. Content can be composed of files in any format, including text, sound, video, and images.
The DAMS is also designed to facilitate the transfer and submission of the Libraries' digital assets to Chronopolis and the California Digital Library’s Merritt, and can easily be extended to serve other purposes. Additionally, the DAMS is able to export data in many formats, including METS, HTML, OAI, RSS, CSV. Future plans include linking data sets with other universities and organizations.
Click here to view the DAMS technical diagram.
Access to select digital collections is made freely accessible to the UCSD community (faculty, staff and students) and the public via the Digital Library Collections website. There are two different states to the DAMS Public Access System (PAS): a public view and a UCSD IP Restricted Access view. Because of copyright restrictions, fair use, or licensing agreements, some digitized materials are restricted to UCSD IP access only.
For more information, read the FAQs here. If you have any questions about access or the copyright status of a collection, please email dlp@ucsd.edu.
Digital Preservation Repository
Provides a single shared solution for the preservation, management, and controlled dissemination of digital collections that support research, teaching, and learning for benefit of the UC Libraries and their users. The repository provides a set of self-service interfaces that the libraries use to deposit and manage digital objects. The services and storage are based at the CDL.
A free, open-access infrastructure that offers UC departments, centers, and research units direct control over the creation and dissemination of the full range of their scholarship, including pre-publication materials, journals and peer-reviewed series, postprints, and seminar papers. These materials are freely available to the public online.
Online Archive of California
A core component of the CDL, the OAC is a digital information resource that facilitates and provides access to materials such as manuscripts, photographs, and works of art held in libraries, museums, archives, and other institutions across California. The OAC is available to students, teachers, and researchers of all levels, providing access to information previously available only to scholars who traveled to collection sites.
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