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The UC Heads of Public Services (HOPS) formed an Image Services Rollout and Advisory Committee (ISRAC) to plan for the rollout of the UC Image Service and to address related issues, such as copyright and collection development in an advisory capacity. For more information including a roster of members and charge, see the ISRAC page.

UC’s shared image collections are accessed using Luna Insight.

a. Luna Insight Software version 5.1 Released

The following are key enhancements to the user interface.  A complete list of new features in Insight version 5.1 is available on the Luna web site.

Java client:

• Re-ordering of Image Groups based on a custom order.  Image Groups can now be ordered to meet your own needs.  Simply create an Image Group; add images; and drag and drop them into any order you choose, then save.
• New presentations maintain the Image Group’s sort order when the presentation is created.
• Annotations are now included in Image Export data.
• Annotations and metadata are now included in the Presentation Export to HTML, PowerPoint on Windows, and Keynote.
• Users may now specify the number of items per page (50, 100, or 250).

Browser Insight:

• BrowserInsight now supports Safari 1.2+ (Apple’s web browser).
• Users may now resize the image workspace’s floating data window.

To download the Java client version 5.1 for either Mac or PC, follow the instructions on the Directory of CDL-Licensed Content page.

b. Luna Insight Software Now hosted at CDL — URLs Changed

Following the conclusion of the Image Demonstrator project in December 2004, the CDL committed to hosting the shared UC image collections using Luna Insight for at least two years.  As of March 2005, the UC image collections in Insight are being hosted at CDL rather than by Luna Imaging.

As a result, the URLs to the browser version of Insight have changed.  If you are using the persistent URL (PID) shown below to link to a collection, you do not need to make any changes as the PIDs have remained the same.

Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO)

Access:

• Interim page: http://www.cdlib.org/hlp/directory/amico.html (suggested URL)

Direct links to the web version:

• Persistent URL (PID): http://uclibs.org/PID/32961
• URL: http://www.davidrumsey.com/amico/rdr/rdrN.asp?cid=1000&iia=0

Library of UC Images/Saskia

Access:

• Interim page: http://www.cdlib.org/hlp/directory/saskia.html (suggested URL)  Direct links to the web version:
• Persistent URL (PID): http://uclibs.org/PID/32963
• URL: http://imageservice.cdlib.org:8081/BrowserInsight/BrowserInsight?cmd=start&un=ucuser&pw=ucuser&cid=VRA-100-NA&iia=0&ig=Library%20of%20UC%20Images/Saskia&isl=0&gwisp=&gwia=0&gc=0

MOAC (Museums in the Online Archive of California)

Access:

• Interim page: http://www.cdlib.org/hlp/directory/moac.html (suggested URL)

Direct links to the web version:

• Persistent URL (PID): http://uclibs.org/PID/32962
• URL: http://imageservice.cdlib.org:8081/BrowserInsight/BrowserInsight?cmd=start&un=ucuser&pw=ucuser&cid=MOAC-100-NA&iia=0&ig=Museums%20%26%20the%20Online%20Archive%20of%20CA&isl=0&gwisp=&gwia=0&gc=0

Tebtunis Papyri

Direct links to the web version:

• Persistent URL (PID): http://uclibs.org/PID/22416
• URL: http://imageservice.cdlib.org:8081/BrowserInsight/BrowserInsight?cmd=start&un=ucuser&pw=ucuser&cid=TPC-102-NA&iia=0&ig=Tebtunis%20Papyri-Bancroft%20Library&isl=0&gwisp=&gwia=0&gc=0

For more information on the image collections available via Luna Insight, see the CDLINFO from July 10, 2003, Vol. 6, No. 11 or the Inside CDL Image Services page.

1970 Census (2nd Count) is now available in Counting California.

This data set contains demographic items tabulated for each person (i.e., 100 percent count of persons), including data on age, race, ethnicity, sex, marital status, and information on schooling, labor force status, and children, as well as details on occupation and income.

Search tip: From the advanced search page you can limit your search to particular data set(s).

This data set is made available as a result of collaboration between CDL and Berkeley’s UC Data staff, Ilona Einowski and Fred Gey.

a. Shirley Leung to Serve as Senior Associate for East Asian Digital Resources
Shirley Leung has temporarily joined the CDL as Senior Associate for East Asian Digital Resources.

Shirley was the University Librarian at Hong Kong Baptist University for the past seven years; prior to that she served as an Associate University Librarian and for one year acting University Librarian at UC Irvine.  She also was a librarian at UC Riverside and at the State University of New York at Binghamton.  Shirley has an extensive list of publications and presentations to her credit.  In addition, she has received a number of grants.

Shirley will report to Daniel Greenstein.  Her responsibilities will include surveying the East Asian digital resources vendor marketplace, developing functional requirements for UC access to Chinese, Japanese, and Korean language materials, identifying which utilities need to be in place for a UC shared East Asian digital collection to work, recommending a business plan, and developing recommendations on how to best coordinate the acquisition and cataloging of shared East Asian digital collections among the UC libraries.

The need for Shirley’s work for the CDL was established by the CDL East Asian Digital Resources Task Force and is supported by Systemwide Operations and Planning Advisory Group.  The Task Force was responsible for developing a systemwide strategy to take advantage of the increasing number of East Asian digital resources.  The Task Force prepared a white paper that outlined the need for a sustainable infrastructure and explored the possible approaches to management, services and funding options.  The white paper is available at the East Asian Digital Resources Task Force page.  Shirley can be reached at shirley.leung@ucop.edu.