Merritt Digital Preservation Repository – February 2025
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 February 2025
Content and Collections
Active Collections in February
During the month of February, 26TB of content was added to Merritt by depositors across several campuses.
Here are some of the active collections that were being expanded upon:
- UC Merced Library Historical Photo Archive
- UC Riverside Library Sherman Indian Museum Collection
- UC Berkeley Library Bancroft General collection
- UC Santa Cruz Library – Lick Observatory records: Lick History UA036 Ser. 8
- UC Santa Cruz Library – Shakespeare Santa Cruz records UA041
- UC Irvine Library Jacques Derrida Papers
Digital Preservation Community
DPC Workflow Webinar Series for 2025
The Digital Preservation Coalition hosted their annual workflow webinar series on community owned workflows during the week of February 3. Recordings will be made available to the general public starting on March 17, so keep an eye on the webinar series page in the near future!
New Collection in the journal AI & Society
Last year, the NDSA Infrastructure Interest Group invited Dr. Lise Jaillant (Loughborough University) and Glen Layne-Worthey (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) to speak at one of our meetings regarding the application of AI towards archives. A new collection of articles, associated with the LUSTRE project Dr. Jaillant leads is now available in the journal AI & Society. The collection, titled “When data turns into archives: making digital records more accessible with AI,” presents a series of nine articles that cover anything from multiple applications of LLMs in this space, to the use of AI-driven visualization for email archives.
What We’re Working On
Learn more about the Merritt team’s plans for 2025!
UC3 service managers are publishing a New Year series of blog posts outlining and discussing upcoming projects for 2025. The Merritt blog post is now live, so please have a look and let us know if you would like additional information on our upcoming work!
UC3 New Year Series: The Merritt Digital Preservation Repository in 2025
Repository Metrics for February
Holdings Snapshot
| Holdings as of July 1, 2024, fiscal year start: | 468.8 TB (one copy) |
| Holdings as of February 27, 2025 | 536.42 TB (one copy) |
| Holdings as of January 30, 2025 | 509.96 TB |
| Holdings as of October 30, 2024 | 492.02 TB |
| 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 |
Active collections in February (new files added – a single digital object can contain one or more files):
| eScholarship | 185,295 |
| University and Jepson Herbaria Image Archive | 8,022 |
| CDL EarthArXiv Preprint Collection | 138 |
| CDL EcoEvoRxiv Preprint Collection | 128 |
| UC Berkeley Library EART Collection | 848 |
| UC Berkeley Library Bancroft General Collection | 12,178 |
| UC Berkeley Library Map Collection | 178 |
| UC Davis ETDs | 435 |
| UC Irvine Library Jacques Derrida Papers | 6,639 |
| UC Merced Library Historical Photo Archive | 11,081 |
| UC Riverside Library Nuxeo collection | 95,047 |
| UC Santa Barbara ETD | 220 |
| Lick Observatory records: Lick History UA036 Ser. 8 | 227 |
| Shakespeare Santa Cruz records UA041 | 1,049 |
Useful Links
Learn more about Merritt and the team that’s advancing CDL’s digital preservation repository.
Merritt Policies and User Guidelines
Merritt Preservation Repository
Find the team on GitHub!
Terrence Brady Senior Developer and Technical Lead
David Loy Senior Developer
Mark Reyes Senior Developer
Eric Lopatin Merritt Product Manager (at CDL)
Contact Us
Merritt administrators may be contacted at uc3@ucop.edu. Sending a message will automatically open a new issue in CDL’s internal ticketing system.
To report an urgent problem with Merritt, call the CDL Help Line at (510) 987-0555.