UC3 Timeline

2025

Late 2025 (planned): The launch of the rebuilt DMP Tool application is anticipated.
May 2025: The Collaborative Metadata Enrichment Taskforce (COMET) entered an active development phase of piloting enrichment and curation workflows with initial partners and respondents.
April 2025: CDL signs the Barcelona Declaration, marking an institutional commitment to building open and community-led research infrastructure.
February 2025: COMET issued its “Call to Action,” inviting the community and strategic partners to co-create and pilot shared workflows for improving PID metadata quality through community-driven enrichment.

January 2024: ARL and CDL select ten institutional teams to pilot machine-actionable DMP (maDMSP) integration/workflows as part of the MAP Project.

October 2023: CDL begins a planned transition out of its role as co-developer of Dryad’s technical platform, having fulfilled its goals of supporting research data publishing and helping to establish a sustainable, community-led service for the UC community.
August 2023: ARL and CDL receive a National Leadership Grant from IMLS to develop prototypes for scalable, enterprise-level research data infrastructure. The project focuses on enhancing the DMPTool to support machine-actionable data management and sharing across institutions.

September 2021: The FAIR Island Project (a 2-year NSF EAGER grant) is awarded to CDL and partners.
April 2021: DMP-IDs are launched as a “Brave New PID” for DMPs.

May 2020: The California Digital Library, Crossref, and DataCite sign the first memorandum of agreement for shared responsibility and governance of ROR.
February 2020: The formation of the DMP Tool Editorial Board is announced.

December 2019: An NSF-sponsored invitational conference on “Implementing Effective Data Practices” is hosted.
October 2019: Active development begins on the technical aspects of the NSF-funded EAGER research project for maDMPs, including a DataCite partnership.
August 2019: DataCite begins supporting ROR IDs in its DOI metadata schema.
July 2019: Dryad becomes the first ROR adopter.
January 2019: The Research Organization Registry (ROR) launches its first iteration at PIDapalooza in Dublin.

October 2018: The DMPRoadmap major 2.0.0 release is announced.
August 2018: Merritt, CDL’s digital preservation repository, and its companion Dash data publishing platform receive CoreTrustSeal certification.
July 2018: CDL receives an NSF EAGER grant to prototype machine-actionable DMPs (maDMPs). The website activedmps.org is launched.
February 2018: DMP Tool Version 3 launches, representing the convergence of DMPTool and DMPonline into a single, internationalized DMPRoadmap platform.
CDL begins partnership with Dryad.

October 2017: Two new Research Data Alliance (RDA) Working Groups are launched: DMP Common Standards and Exposing DMPs.
September 2017: The California Digital Library is awarded a 2-year NSF EAGER grant to support active, machine-actionable DMPs.
UC3 and Library Carpentry receive an IMLS grant to advance LC’s scope and adoption.
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation funds CDL, DataCite, and DataONE for the “Make Data Count” initiative.
A Request for Information (RFI) is sought for an openly licensed, independently run organizational identifier registry (later ROR).

November 2016: The inaugural PIDapalooza takes place. The “Org ID” initiative, which would later become ROR, begins community planning.
February 2016: The DMP Tool and DMPonline formalize their partnership to move toward a single platform, named DMPRoadmap.

August 2015: “Making Data Count” research effort, understanding researcher perspectives on publication and peer review of data, is published.

November 2014: Dash, a new self-service tool for data sharing, is launched. DataUp is merged with Dash in September 2014.
October 2014: UC3, PLOS, and DataONE launch a new project to develop data-level metrics as part of the “Make Data Count” initiative.
May 2014: DMP Tool Version 2 is released, supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and IMLS.

DataUp, a data publication tool, spun out of the DCXL project.
July 2012: The DMP Tool wins a Larry L. Sautter Golden Award for Innovation in Information Technology.
May 2012: EZID, the “easy long-term identifier service,” gets a new look, allowing users to create and maintain ARKs and DataCite Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs).

December 2011: A joint US-UK data management planning workshop is held at IDCC11, featuring DMPonline and the DMP Tool.
October 2011: The DMP Tool officially launched.
October 2011: The Digital Curation for Excel (DCXL) project blog is launched, focusing on developing an Excel add-in to improve scientific data curation.
January 2011: All National Science Foundation (NSF) grant proposals begin requiring a Data Management Plan (DMP).

June 2010: UC3 publishes on emergent micro-services approaches to digital curation infrastructure, re-envisioning its approach to digital curation infrastructure.

UC3 is established, broadening the focus of the former “Digital Preservation Program” to encompass new areas of digital curation.
December 2009: DataCite is officially founded in London, with its first board including Patricia Cruse from CDL.