At UC3, several of our latest initiatives involve integrating AI tools, with a particular focus on improving metadata and assisting researchers with creating best practice…
UC3 :: California Digital Library Posts
Why CDL Is Investing in COMET: A Community Centered Path to Richer Metadata
Posted in Persistent Identifiers
When the California Digital Library (CDL) signed the Barcelona Declaration in April 2025, it marked a deeper institutional commitment to building open and community-led research infrastructure.…
Webinar Series: Insights from the Machine Actionable Data Management Plans Pilot
Posted in ActiveDMPs
Want to learn about how technological advancements in data management plans can benefit research at your university? Have you heard the term “machine actionable” a…
DMP Tool and the Research Data Alliance Our work at DMP Tool has been shaped from the ground up through collaborations at the Research Data Alliance (RDA).…
UC3 New Year Series: Data Publishing at CDL in 2025
Posted in Data Publishing, Library Carpentry, Skills Training, The Carpentries, and Uncategorized
Structured, well-documented, and FAIR-aligned data is the foundation of effective research dissemination. However, data publishing activities have often focused on the last step in the…
UC3 New Year Series: Persistent Identifiers at CDL in 2025
Posted in EZID, Persistent Identifiers, and ROR
CDL’s persistent identifier portfolio, which includes the Research Organization Registry (ROR), EZID, Name-to-Thing (N2T), and the new Collaborative Metadata Enrichment Taskforce (COMET) initiative, had a…
UC3 New Year Series: The Merritt Digital Preservation Repository in 2025
Posted in Digital Preservation, and Merritt
At UC3, we’re dedicated to advancing the fields of digital curation, digital preservation, and open data practices. Over the years, we’ve built and supported a…
At UC3, we’re dedicated to advancing the fields of digital curation, digital preservation, and open data practices. Over the years, we’ve built and supported a…
Sustainable, community-driven infrastructure is essential for advancing open scholarship. That’s why UC3 not only championed the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI) through our advocacy…
Understanding the Vision Behind Make Data Count and the Open Global Data Citation Corpus
Posted in data metrics, and Make Data Count
As the scientific community increasingly embraces open data, the question of how these datasets are being accessed and utilized becomes ever more pressing. Researchers, funders,…