Digital Special Collections

See sections below:

• Description
• Contributing to Calisphere and the OAC
  • Become a Contributing Member
  • How to Contribute
  • Resources for Contributing Members
• Projects
• Presentations and Publications

 

Description

The Digital Special Collections program creates and manages a diverse range of curated collections that embody the CDL’s commitment to public service. These digitized images and documents — including photographs, artwork, maps, books, newspaper clippings, transcribed oral histories, political cartoons, and much more — are drawn from the collections of the libraries and museums of the 10 UC campuses, and from other cultural heritage organizations and government sources.

The sites managed by the Digital Special Collections program include:

• Calisphere: The University of California’s free public gateway to more than 200,000 digitized primary sources. Selected from the libraries and museums of the UC campuses and cultural heritage organizations across California, these images, documents, and works of art reveal the diverse history and culture of California and its role in national and world history. This site serves scholars and the general public, and is also tailored to meet the needs of K-12 educators. It includes three important primary source image and document collections that are contextualized with historical essays: Themed Collections, California Cultures, and the Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives.
  




• Online Archive of California (OAC): A single, searchable database of finding aids to thousands of primary source materials (such as manuscripts, photographs, and art) and their digital facsimiles held in a variety of California institutions, including libraries, museums, historical societies, and archives.
  
  
  
  
• UC Image Service: An aggregation of image collections from each UC campus for sharing across the UC system. Each campus manages its own collections, which they load into ARTstor as institutional hosted collections. Together, these individual collections comprise UC Shared Images.
  
  
  

Additional Information

• Administration: Digital Special Collections staff members
• Technical Framework (Calisphere and OAC)

Contributing to Calisphere and the OAC

• Become a Contributing Member
• How to Contribute
• Resources for Contributing Members

Projects

• OAC Redesign
• Museums and Online Archives Collaboration (MOAC)
• Local History Digital Resources Program (LHDRP)
  

Presentations and Publications

• Contributing Member Meetings
• Presentations