Merritt Digital Preservation Repository – October 2024

October 30, 2024 Author: Eric LopatinCategories:

Merritt is a digital preservation repository from the University of California Curation Center (UC3) that enables the UC community to manage, archive, and share its valuable digital content.

Welcome to the Merritt service update for October 2024

Content and Collections

UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies Library

Late in October, members of the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies Library (IGSL), UC Berkeley Library IT and the Merritt team discussed the potential deposit of three new IGSL collections. This project is likely to kick off in earnest in January 2025, so stay tuned for more news on our progress.

Active Collections

During the month of October, the following collections were actively being expanded:

UC Berkeley Library Bancroft Selections
UC Berkeley Library EAL Selections
UC Berkeley Library Japanese Historical Maps
UC Berkeley Library Humanities & Social Sciences
UC Merced Library UCCE Fresno County
The University and Jepson Herbaria Image Archive

Digital Preservation Community

New Fixity Check! Blog by the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration

The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration launched a new blog in October. Titled Fixity Check! the blog “will highlight digital preservation efforts at NARA and offer a glimpse into the broad scope of work that is digital preservation. Some of the types of posts you can expect are announcements of new or updated work products, discussions of current research projects, and interviews with NARA staff.”

An initial post is available now: Digital Preservation Framework Re-Release Part 1: What is the Digital Preservation Framework?

World Digital Preservation Day is November 7, 2024

Please join the UC Libraries’ Digital Preservation Working Group (DPWG) online on November 7, 2024 from 11AM – 12PM to celebrate World Digital Preservation Day, where you’ll hear digital preservation stories from the UC & Jepson Herbaria and the UCSF Industry Documents Library. We’ll also discuss ongoing digital preservation efforts being driven by the DPWG and have time for attendees to share their thoughts, questions and experiences pertaining to current and past projects involving digital preservation elements. Please RSVP via Zoom

What We’re Working On

Nuxeo Direct Deposits are Back!

With the successful launch of the new Calisphere platform by the Publications, Archives & Digitization team at CDL, feeds from our hosted Nuxeo DAMS instance are once again being generated for consumption by Merritt. The Merritt team is in the process of processing all available Nuxeo-to-Merritt direct deposit feeds while also addressing requests for new deposits. Please reach out via our direct deposit form if you would like to begin a new collection deposit to Merritt!

Repository Metrics for October

Holdings Snapshot

Holdings as of July 1, 2024, fiscal year start:	468.8 TB (one copy)
Holdings as of October 30, 2024	492.02 (one copy)
Holdings as of September 27, 2024	489.33 TB
Holdings as of August 29, 2024	471.27 TB
Holdings as of July 30, 2024	470.19 TB
Holdings as of June 28, 2024	468.8 TB
Holdings as of May 31, 2024	459.06 TB
Holdings as of April 29, 2024	454.66 TB
Deaccessioned Holdings (Dryad)	154.7 TB
Holdings as of March 28, 2024	607.96 TB

Active collections in October (new files added – a single digital object can contain one or more files):

eScholarship	129,990
University and Jepson Herbaria Image Archive	7,172
CDL EarthArXiv Preprint Collection	586
CDL EcoEvoRxiv Preprint Collection	390
UC Berkeley Library Bancroft Selections	73,324
UC Berkeley Library EAL Selections	2,893
UC Berkeley Library Japanese Historical Maps	6,132
UC Berkeley Library Humanities & Social Sciences	22,557
UC Davis ETDs	549
UCI Library ETD	400
UC Merced Library UCCE Fresno County	2,760
UCR Library ETDs	338
UCSD Library ETD	185