In today’s data-driven, online and highly interconnected world, librarians are key to supporting diverse information needs and leading best practices to work with and manage…
Author: John Chodacki
RFI for organizational identifier registry
Posted in Persistent Identifiers, Projects, and UC3
Organizations/institutions are a key part of the scholarly communications ecosystem. However, we lack an openly licensed, independently run organizational identifier standard to use for common…
NSF EAGER Grant for Actionable DMPs
Posted in ActiveDMPs, Data, DMPTool, and UC3
We’re 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).…
PIDapalooza is back!
Posted in Digital Curation, events, Persistent Identifiers, and PIDapalooza
PIDapalooza is back, by popular demand! We’re building on the the best of the inaugural PIDapalooza and organizing two days packed with discussions, demos, informal and…
end .entry-meta This exhibition highlights a collection of Brazilian chapbooks or Literatura de Cordel in the Moffitt Library. These chapbooks are still produced for mass…
Ensuring access to critical research data
Posted in Data, Data Mirror, Digital Preservation, and UC3
For the last two months, UC3 have been working with the teams at Data.gov, Data Refuge, Internet Archive, and Code For Science (creators of the…
Government Data At Risk
Posted in Data Mirror, Digital Preservation, and UC3
Government data is at risk, but that is nothing new. The existence of Data.gov, the Federal Open Data Policy, and open government data belies the…
csv,conf,v3 is happening! This time the community-run conference will be in Portland, Oregon, USA on 2nd and 3rd of May 2017. It will feature stories about data…
Software Carpentry / Data Carpentry Instructor Training for Librarians
Posted in Data, events, Library Carpentry, and UC3
We are pleased to announce that we are partnering with Software Carpentry (http://software-carpentry.org) and Data Carpentry (http://datacarpentry.org) to offer an open instructor training course on May 4-5,…
Dispatches from PIDapalooza
Posted in events, Persistent Identifiers, PIDapalooza, and UC3
Last month, California Digital Library, ORCID, Crossref, and Datacite brought together the brightest minds in scholarly infrastructure to do the impossible: make a conference on…