Category: UC Curation Center (UC3)
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 […]
Dash Service Update: March, 2018
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities The Dash team has been busy parsing out the Code of Practice for Research Data to implement standardized and comparable data usage metrics (views, downloads) of datasets. A “how-to” guide for repositories and blog post […]
ARKs in the Open – Project Update #1
As announced last week, the California Digital Library (CDL) and DuraSpace are collaborating to build an open, international community around Archival Resource Keys (ARKs) and their use as persistent identifiers in the open scholarly ecosystem. We’re calling the project ARKs […]
CDL and DuraSpace launch open community outreach initiative for ARK identifiers
California Digital Library (CDL) and DuraSpace are pleased to announced a collaboration aimed at building an open, international community around Archival Resource Keys (ARKs) and their use as persistent identifiers in the open scholarly ecosystem. Over 550 institutions (research, not-for-profit, […]
DMPTool Launch News: February 27
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities DMPTool Launch Date. We’re excited to announce the much-anticipated launch date for the new version of the DMPTool: Tues, 27 Feb. Please note that the tool will be unavailable from 8am-5pm on the day of […]
EZID Service Update: January 2018
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Identifier Systems Architect John Kunze participated in two panel discussions at the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Winter Meeting. John spoke on YAMZ, a crowd-sourced metadata dictionary at the GeoSemantics symposium. YAMZ offers a […]
DMPTool Service Update: January 2018
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Roadmap/DMPTool upcoming release. We’re on track for our target release date (check out the roadmap to MVP and monitor our progress on Github)! Roadmap v1.0 should be ready in time for a demo at the […]
Merritt 2017 Year in Review
Merritt has done a lot of development in the past few years, in response to external demands. These developments are largely behind the scenes, and invisible to Merritt users: • Migrated all of our servers, storage and MySQL database to […]
Reports of EZID’s death are greatly exaggerated
In 1897, Mark Twain is said to have read his own obituary, and then remarked, “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.” And Mark Twain isn’t the only one to have this sorry experience, as Wikipedia’s List of premature […]
Cobweb Update: Supporting Collaborative Web Archiving
Not unlike the arachnids to which we allude in the Cobweb name, the team behind this open source service platform designed to support collaborative collection development for web archives has been industriously working up an initial prototype of the system. […]