Category: UC Curation Center (UC3)
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. […]
DMPTool Service Update: November 2017
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Roadmap update. We’re making progress toward our target release date in early 2018. You can track our progress here. We’re also testing the DMPTool data migration to the new platform and working with our UX team to […]
CDL Job Opening for a Library Carpentry Coordinator/Research Data Specialist
The UC Curation Center (UC3) is looking for a successful Library Carpentry Coordinator/Research Data Specialist who uses their product management skills, project management skills, software/data skills, and knowledge of the Data Carpentry & Software Carpentry community to promote and expand […]
EZID Service Update: October 2017
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities EZID is changing its DOI service, and implementation is underway. More information is available here: https://ezid.cdlib.org/learn/doi_services_faq. If you have questions about your specific situation, please contact us. EZID Partners and Clients Our current EZID […]