Category: UC Curation Center (UC3)
Joan Starr to retire in June
Joan Starr, EZID Service Manager, in CDL’s Infrastructure and Applications Support group, will be retiring on June 28, 2018. While this is sad news for CDL and the UC community, it is the right time for Joan (first grandchild on […]
Welcome Chris Erdmann, Library Carpentry Community and Development Director
The University of California Curation Center (UC3) is excited to announce that Chris Erdmann has been hired as the Library Carpentry Community and Development Director starting May 4, 2018. Chris has been working in the libraries for more than 21 years to […]
Cobweb Update: How Cobweb Facilitates Participatory Web Archiving
Given its breadth and depth, archiving the web can seem an overwhelming endeavor. Digital curators typically approach web archiving by first determining what to collect based on the collecting scope established by their organization. Once they’ve identified the general theme […]
EZID Service Update: March 2018
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Identifier Systems Architect John Kunze was the keynote speaker at an ARK Summit hosted by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BNF), http://www.bnf.fr/fr/professionnels/anx_journees_pro_2018/a.jp_180321_ark.html. The event, conducted in French, drew participants from around Europe. The Library […]
ARKs in the Open: Project Update #4 on the ARK Identifier Summit and Experts Day
The Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) organized an ARK Identifier Summit followed by an ARK Experts Day in Paris last week. The California Digital Library’s John Kunze, Identifier Systems Architect and creator of ARKs, was invited to give the opening […]
ARKs in the Open – Project Update #3, Roadmap and Resources and Value Statement
Add your voice to the new ARKs in the Open Roadmap and Resources and Value Statement. These new project artifacts describe the product and community resources required to fulfill a sustainable future for ARKS and our value proposition. The roadmap […]
CDL Staff in Print – Stephanie Simms in Nature article on Data Management
Congratulations to CDL’s Stephanie Simms (Research Data Specialist and DMPTool Service Manager) who was quoted extensively in “Data management made simple: Keeping your research data freely available is crucial for open science – and your funding could depend on it,” […]
New DMPTool Launched!
We’re delighted to announce a successful launch of DMPTool version 3 and the official release of the DMPRoadmap code (release notes). This milestone represents the convergence of the two most popular data management planning tools—US-based DMPTool and UK-based DMPonline—into a […]
ARKs in the Open – Project Update #2
As part of the Archival Resource Keys (ARKs) in the Open project, we want to articulate and refine the long-term vision for ARK identifiers, starting with the ARK specification, and to collaborate with users on how to achieve it. Incubators […]
Birds, Bees, and EZIDs: Where Do CDL’s Persistent Identifiers Come from?
Leading up to UC-DLFx, CDL staff had been asked to explain how our services work with EZID and how the identifiers used in each system are related. At the conference we gave a brief presentation illustrating how Merritt, eScholarship, and Dash […]