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Investigating

Investigating . Ashley Butler, Rebecka Embry, Jo Lammert INF385S Digital Libraries February 17, 2011. http://www.calisphere.org. “Calisphere is the University of California's free public gateway to a world of primary sources.”

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Investigating

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  1. Investigating Ashley Butler, Rebecka Embry, Jo Lammert INF385S Digital Libraries February 17, 2011

  2. http://www.calisphere.org

  3. “Calisphere is the University of California's free public gateway to a world of primary sources.” • Public service project of the University of California and the California Digital Library (CDL) • CDL Executive Director- Laine Farley, MLS, UT-Austin • CDL mission statement: “The California Digital Library exists to support the University of California community’s pursuit of scholarship and to extend the University’s public service mission.” • CDL Founded in 1997 • Calisphere launched in 2006 • Origins from the Online Archive of California (OAC) in the 90s.

  4. Primary topic • History and culture of California • Calisphere Goals • Facilitate the “assembly and creative use of scholarship for the UC libraries and the communities they serve” • Aid teachers by providing: • Primary source material • Sample lesson plans • Primary source analysis sheets • Funded by the department of Academic Planning, Programs, and Coordination at the University of California Office of the President and various grants

  5. Resources • Digitized images and text, such as photographs, documents, newspaper pages, political cartoons, works of art, diaries, transcribed oral histories, advertising, and other unique cultural artifacts • Over 150,000 digitized items • Items are taken from the Online Archive of California and provided by other contributing institutions • Calisphere acts as the host for the material • http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/institutions.html • Resources are both downloadable and printable from the website

  6. Metadata • Items are described using Dublin Core • Easy to locate for each individual item

  7. Organization • User Groups: • Educators, researchers, historians, scholars, genealogists, writers, students, community members, and the public • Designed for classroom use • Variety of searching and browsing features • Search boxes • Drop down menus • Browse a-z, search terms selected from California Content Standards • By sample lesson plan • By primary source sets • By “Themed Collections” • By California cultures • By historical essay

  8. http://www.calisphere.org

  9. Frustrations • Image Examples • http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt9s20248t/ • http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf609nb1wk/ • Textual examples • http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb7r29p227;NAAN=13030&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=0&toc.depth=1&toc.id=0&brand=calisphere • http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb3f59n982/?order=1&brand=calisphere • Browse A-Z • Potential for tagging?

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