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Digital Special Collections

The Digital Special Collections Program (DSC) supports collaboration between libraries, archives, and museums throughout the State of California to provide access to a world class digital collection that serves an array of end users, from researchers and scholars to K-12 students. DSC offers: UC faculty and students a comprehensive index of rare and unique materials and images for classroom instruction; UC's libraries, archives, and museums technology, expertise, and best practices for building and providing access to their digital collections; and California K-12 teachers and the general public access to UC's digital collections for teaching and exploration. Online Archive of California (OAC) : a free website that provides over 20,000 collection descriptions for materials housed physically at educational and cultural institutions across California Calisphere : a free website that offers educators, students, and the public direct online access to more than 200,000 primary sources http://www.cdlib.org/services/dsc/

Demonstrations and Prototypes

http://metadata.berkeley.edu/demos/ Try the prototype See a demo video Light and Shadows: Emma Goldman 1910-1916 This website attempts to document all the places in America that Emma Goldman gave talks, and all the topics she spoke on, between 1910 and 1916. Goldman's activities are represented as a network of events, each of which can be associated with documents related to those events. Part of the Bringing Lives to Light: Biography in Context project. See a demo video