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Category: UC Curation Center (UC3)

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 […]

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 […]