Category: UC Curation Center (UC3)
UC Curation Center recruiting two senior developer positions
The UC Curation Center (UC3) is currently recruiting for two positions: Senior Developer/DevOps Administrator and Senior Developer. The Senior Developer/DevOps Administrator will be involved in Java and Ruby/Rails application-level development, maintenance, and enhancement, as well as the architectural design, operational support, and system-level […]
EZID Service Update: January 2016
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities This month re3data.org announced a new metadata schema (http://www.re3data.org/2016/01/new-re3data-org-schema-and-search-functionality/). re3data.org is the Registry of Research Data Repositories, and it has been part of DataCite since 2014. A quick search of the registry for UC […]
DMPTool Service Update: December 2015
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Maintenance/migrations. The DMPTool will be unavailable on Wed, Feb 3, 2016 5 – 6pm (PDT) while we migrate the database to AWS. The application will also be moving to the cloud so you can expect another maintenance message […]
EZID Service Update: December 2015
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities EZID clients had another interesting exchange about “evolving” or dynamic datasets this month. This is clearly a topic that concerns many data managers. The latest discussion is here: http://bit.ly/1P7vLA4. In late November, DataCite held […]
DMPTool Service Update: November 2015
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Seeking usage stats? Just a reminder that institutional administrators can get basic usage statistics via the DMPTool API (instructions here). We continue to receive requests for more robust reporting—this is at the top of the list […]
EZID Service Update: November 2015
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities An EZID client recently wondered about a DOI that seemed to be broken, and this lead to the topic of reserved identifiers, a special EZID feature. By default, the DOIs and ARKs that you create […]
WAS to Archive-It Migration Update
The Web Archiving Service (WAS) migration to Internet Archive’s Archive-It Service reached two major milestones last week when the WAS crawlers crawled their last crawl and the last of the UC institutions moved their collections to Archive-It. (See previous CDLINFO […]
EZID Service Update: October 2015
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities DataCite, CrossRef and ORCID made a joint announcement of a new development: auto-updates to your ORCID profile. What this means: ORCIDs are unique persistent identifiers for researchers. Until now, researchers with ORCID profiles have had […]
John Chodacki Named Director of the University of California Curation Center at the California Digital Library
The California Digital Library is delighted to announce the appointment of John Chodacki as the new Director of the University of California Curation Center (UC3) effective October 19th, 2015. John comes to the CDL from the Public Library of Science […]
DMPTool Service Update: September 2015
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities New Template. In response to updated guidelines, we added a drop-down menu for the US Department of Energy (DOE) with a new “DOE: Generic” template. Check out the DMPTool blog for the full story. […]