Category: UC Curation Center (UC3)
Deposit, save, share, find that content and data: new UC3 services launch
The University of California Curation Center (UC3) is excited to be launching three new services September 15 and 17, 2010. They include Merritt (named for CDL’s close neighbor, Lake Merritt), a tool for the UC community to manage, archive and […]
Persistence
Since March, I’ve had the opportunity of working with the UC3 team at CDL. I joined part time, you might say, as the project manager for the EZID/DataCite project. (I wear a lot of hats here.) In this role, I’m […]
Update on the DataCite Metadata Working Group
It’s about time for a check-in on my experiences with the DataCite Metadata Working Group. I introduced this intrepid band a couple of months ago when we met face-to-face in Hannover, Germany. Since then, of course, we’ve dispersed to our […]
UC3 to host Curate Camp 2010!
UC3 will host a conference on curation micro-services on August 16-17 at UC Berkeley. Or rather, we’re hosting an “unconference.” Unconferences are meetings where the participants set the agenda and give presentations. The emphasis is on collaboration, discussion, interaction and […]
Strength in diversity: notes from the DataCite Conference
In his groundbreaking book Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond argued that Europe’s key advantage over China during the Age of Exploration was the sheer number of European political entities. Christopher Columbus heard “No” from one sovereign and still had […]
Webinar of "Merritt" repository development
UC3 is developing a new Digital Preservation Repository based on a set of curation micro-services. (We’ve named this development effort “Merritt” after Lake Merritt (http://www.oaklandnet.com/parks/parks/lakemerritt.asp), just a few blocks from our office.) We’ve reached a development milestone, and held a […]
Patricia Cruse: Digital Preservation Pioneer
CDL Director of the University of California Curation Center (UC3), Patricia Cruse, was profiled in the May 2010 issue of the Library of Congress Preservation Newsletter, where she was dubbed a “digital preservation pioneer”. The article also links to a […]
CDL Users Council: You can view this year’s sessions
By Ellen Meltzer, Information Services Manager From your desktop, you can attend sessions on CDL program activities tailored for Users Council. UC campuses and selected California institutions have a Users Council member who monitors communications to and from the CDL, […]
JHOVE2: characterization matters
JHOVE is software used by most digital libraries and repositories to help manage their collections of digital files. First released in 2005, it quickly became an indispensible tool for format characterization and validation. In simple terms, people use JHOVE to […]
DataCite: UC Provides Long Term Public Visibility and Access to Research Data
By Patricia Cruse, Director, University of California Curation Center One of today’s most important priorities for academic scholarship and research is providing long term access to datasets. Data are now seen as the building blocks of scholarship and research in […]