Category: Merritt
Merritt Service Update: September 2014
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Dash Meeting. A meeting to discuss Dash was held at UCLA on Sept. 25, with participants from all UC campuses. (Merritt is the storage service behind Dash.) More information about the meeting, with slides […]
Merritt Service Update: August 2014
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities SDSC migration. We are migrating content from the UCOP data center to the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC). We’ve migrated about 40,000 objects so far, with another 120,000 left to go. We are migrating […]
Merritt Service Update: July 2014
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities SDSC update. We have successfully resolved all the issues with the storage node at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) Cloud Storage service, and are now sending all newly submitted content to SDSC. […]
Merritt Service Update: June 2014
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities UCLA Storage. We are working with the new UCLA storage service in order to include it as part of the Merritt storage service, so that we’ll have replication at both SDSC as well as […]
Merritt Service Update: March 2014
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities 9 campuses use Merritt to preserve Electronic theses and dissertations—we have over 14,000 ETDs in Merritt. We have been working with Emily Lin and Sarah Sheets at UC Merced to streamline the process. CDL […]
Merritt Service Update: January-February 2014
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Datashare is a new service at UCSF for researchers to submit and discover important research data (http://datashare.ucsf.edu). We’re exploring the possibility of expanding Datashare to other campuses. We held a webinar on February 2 […]
Merritt Service Update: October 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Datashare is now available for UCSF researchers at http://datashare.ucsf.edu. This is a collaborative project of the UCSF Libraries, CDL and UCSF CTSI. The site has two main components: 1) the catalog of available datasets […]
Merritt Service Update: July-September 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities The migration of content in the legacy Digital Preservation Repository (DPR) to Merritt is complete. Over 80,000 objects in 89 collections from the DPR were successfully ingested into Merritt. It took many weeks of […]
Merritt Service Update: June 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities The migration of the Merritt infrastructure to Virtual Machines (VMs) is complete. Each of the Merritt microservices had to be moved and tested. The migration went smoothly, and the new VMs will provide a […]
Eric Kansa: Champion of Change
Eric Kansa (UC Berkeley School of Information) has been honored with an “Open Science” Champions of Change Award (http://www.whitehouse.gov/champions). On June 20, Eric attended the White House, which hosted a Champions of Change event to highlight “outstanding individuals, organizations, or […]