Category: UC Curation Center (UC3)
CDL seeks developer for international preservation registry project (UDFR)
Are you a developer who is passionate about digital curation, linked open data, and open-source projects? Would you like to work on a project which contributes to the international digital curation, preservation and repository communities? Do you want to work […]
DataCite Metadata Scheme is published
The DataCite Metadata Scheme has been finalized and is now available here (http://datacite.org/schema/DataCite-MetadataKernel_v2.0.pdf). After many months and a lot of very early morning conference calls with my European colleagues, I am delighted to make this announcement. The core group that […]
CDLers (and UCSBer) in Print
The latest D-Lib magazine is a special issue devoted to Research Data. It has an international list of authors, including a few from close to home. John Kunze and Patricia Cruse, University of California Curation Center; and Greg Janée, University […]
DataCite Turns One
Recently I attended the General Assembly of DataCite, the international organization devoted to providing a reliable means of citing research data. The organization has made remarkable progress in a year and is well on the way to providing this critical […]
Data Documentation Initiative Workshops 1/10-12 at UCSD – Sign Up Now
Immediately following ALA Midwinter, the UCSD Libraries will host a two-part workshop on the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI), a community XML standard being deployed internationally for describing, managing, and accessing data sets. The goal of the workshop is to promote […]
Go Giants! Persist!
Hundreds of thousands of Giants fans crowded the streets of downtown San Francisco (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2010/11/04/MNM51G6DMS.DTL) to welcome their conquering heroes home, many having waited a lifetime for the pleasure. Orange and black confetti poured out office buildings lining the business district. […]
Digital library’s global, local services
The California Digital Library’s (CDL) success in elevating the digital library to be expansively global and deeply local has been demonstrated this fall in its launching of an array of pioneering resources that support activities in all corners of research […]
OCLC webinar on Merritt, Thursday Nov. 18
OCLC Research is hosting a webinar on Merritt as part of their Technical Advances for Innovation in Cultural Heritage Institutions (TAI CHI) series on Thursday, Nov 18 at 11am PT (2pm ET). The webinar will be led by Stephen Abrams […]
UC3 EZID webinar 10/26 3:30-4:30pm PT
UC3 is offering a webinar on the new EZID (easy-eye-dee) service on October 26th at 3:30 pm (PT). EZID makes it simple for researchers and others to obtain and manage long-term identifiers for their digital content. The service can create […]
UC3 Merritt webinar 10/20 1-2pm PT
UC3 has recently released the new Merritt repository service. This new repository is the successor to the Digital Preservation Repository (DPR), and provides a cost-effective way for the UC3 community to manage, archive and share its digital content. Merritt provides […]