Category: UC Curation Center (UC3)
EZID Client List growing
EZID (easy-eye-dee) offers a simple but powerful way to use identifiers to track research materials, including datasets, throughout their lifecycle. EZID’s unique identifiers can be highly reliable aids in data management, data sharing, and citation tracking. The service had a soft […]
Web Archiving Service Webinars: Introduction to WAS
Learn how to build web archives with CDL’s Web Archiving Service! Our introductory webinar will be offered on October 26, October 27th and again on November 10th (details below). If you are a new WAS user or if you’re just […]
Facilitating Data Management: DCXL
CDL has launched a new project dubbed Digital Curation for Excel (DCXL), led by UC3’s project manager Carly Strasser. Carly comes to the CDL with a PhD in Biological Oceanography from Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; her most […]
Digital preservation: content now more secure than ever
In order to provide a greater level of preservation assurance to its customers, the University of California Curation Center (UC3) has upgraded the Merritt curation repository with a new version of the Fixity micro-service. “Fixity” refers to a method of […]
Data and the Scholarly Record: the Changing Landscape: Join us August 24-25
DataCite will hold its second Summer Meeting on August 24th and 25th at the historic Shattuck Plaza Hotel in Berkeley, California. The Summer Meeting — Data and the Scholarly Record: the Changing Landscape—will be a 1.5 day event hosted by […]
Ensuring Digital Formats Remain Usable: CDL Partnering on Unified Digital Formats Registry
The CDL, with funding from the Library of Congress, is working collaboratively to develop a Unified Digital Formats Registry (UDFR). A post describing this international project is on the LC digital preservation site. For those not familiar with the project […]
Learn more about digital preservation, web archiving and data curation
UC3, CDL is pleased to announce a Summer Webinar Series highlighting projects, services, and developments in the areas of digital preservation, web archiving and data curation. A goal of the webinars is to raise awareness of these issues, and the […]
Spreading the Word about JHOVE2: Tutorial Delivered in Salt Lake City, Rome
For the past two years the University of California Curation Center (UC3) has been partnering with Portico and Stanford on a project to develop JHOVE2, an open source format-aware characterization application and framework. The goals of the project were to […]
Fixity micro-service draft specification available
We’re at a point in Merritt development where we are creating more user-facing services, and we will be seeking public response on a more regular basis. We are now working on the fixity micro-service, and have a draft specification available […]
EZID: A Tool for Creation and Long-Term Management of Identifiers
Recently our EZID (http://n2t.net/ezid) service was reviewed on four points: 1. EZID represents a single point of failure, and, as such is vulnerable. 2. URLs are “a globally deployed identifier scheme” that have endured and provide the functionality cultural heritage […]