Category: UC Curation Center (UC3)
DMPTool Team Awarded NSF EAGER Grant for Actionable DMPs
DMPTool is delighted to announce that the California Digital Library has been awarded a 2-year NSF EAGER grant to support active, machine-actionable data management plans (DMPs). The vision is to convert DMPs from a compliance exercise based on static text documents […]
EZID Service Update: August 2017
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities EZID announced a major shift in its DOI service, scaling back its scope of business to encompass solely the University of California (UC). Non-UC clients will be gradually transitioned to an alternate DOI service […]
Dash Receives Sautter Award for Innovation in Information Tech
For the second year in a row, a California Digital Library service has captured a Larry L. Sautter Award for Innovation in Information Technology. This year the silver Sautter award went to the Dash team for its user-friendly platform for managing, archiving and […]
EZID DOI Service is Evolving
By Joan Starr, EZID Service Manager, California Digital Library; Michael Witt, Associate Professor of Library Science, Purdue University Libraries; and, Patricia Cruse, Executive Director, DataCite The California Digital Library (CDL) and Purdue University are adopting a new strategic direction for […]
DMPTool Service Update: July 2017
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Roadmap update. We passed another milestone this month as DCC completed the migration of all three production services—DMPonline, DMPTuuli, and DMPMelbourne—to the new Roadmap codebase! Check out the Release Notes for v0.3. The DMPTool migration […]
Disambiguating Dash and Merritt
What’s Dash? What’s Merritt? What’s the difference? After numerous questions about where things should go and what the differences are between our UC3 services, we got the hint that we are not communicating clearly. Clearing things up A group of […]
DMPTool Service Update: May 2017
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Roadmap update. We just reached a huge milestone (!), pushing a preliminary version of the DMPRoadmap code out to test on DCC-hosted DMPonline, DMPTuuli, and DMPMelbourne. Stay tuned for an update about when DCC will migrate […]
EZID Service Update: May 2017
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities John Kunze, EZID System Architect, and Greg Janée, EZID Technical Lead, both attended the third annual CSV conference in Portland, May 2-3. “CSV” is short for “comma separated values,” and it is a common […]
Make Data Count: Building a System to Support Recognition of Data as a First Class Research Output
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has made a 2-year, $747K award to the California Digital Library, DataCite and DataONE to support collection of usage and citation metrics for data objects. Building on pilot work, this award will result in the […]
EZID Service Update: April 2017
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Joan Starr, EZID’s Service Manager, attended DataCite’s annual Strategy Meeting and General Assembly where she gave a presentation on the Force11 Software Citation Principles. Software and data differ from one another in several key […]