Category: Merritt
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 […]
Merritt Service Update: May 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Work is in-progress and on track for the following high priority development activities, slated for completion this summer: Migrate Merritt’s underlying technical infrastructure from physical servers to Virtual Machines (VM). (All UCOP services are […]
CDL Welcomes New UC3 Staff
By Stephen Abrams, UC3 Associate Director CDL’s UC3 program has just completed a flurry of hiring to fill four positions, two funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Joshua Hubbard and Bhavitavya (Bhavi) Vedula were hired to work on the […]
Merritt Service Update: April 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Work is in‐progress and on track to migrate Merritt’s underlying technical infrastructure from physical servers to Virtual Machines (VM). (All UCOP services are moving to VMs.) We expect this work to be completed in […]
Merritt Service Update: March 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities An updated roadmap summarizing our 2013 development priorities for Merritt is now available on the UC3 Curation Wiki: http://bit.ly/16O0hGK We are continuing work towards migrating the backend Merritt server environment from physical servers to Virtual […]
Merritt Service Update: February 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities We are migrating the backend Merritt server environment from physical servers to Virtual Machines (VM). All UCOP services are moving to VMs, and we believe that this will result in more stable services. We […]
Merritt Service Update: January 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities We’ve just created a listserv, merritt-l@ucop.edu. We will use the listserv to communicate with Merritt users, particularly with information about scheduled or unscheduled maintenances. We’ve added many people already working with Merritt (and […]