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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! 

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

Learn more about Merritt and the team that’s advancing CDL’s digital preservation repository.

Merritt on cdlib.org

Merritt Policies and User Guidelines

Merritt User Documentation

New Collection Intake Form

FAQ

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.