Data
A new opportunity to build a better (data) future
Last month I left my comfort zone. After 30 years of working as an engineer, developer, and technical leader at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO at UC San Diego), I started a new career as a Senior Product Manager and Research Data Specialist with UC Curation Center (UC3) at the California Digital Library. While it […]
Join CDL as a Senior Product Manager
California Digital Library (CDL) is recruiting a Senior Product Manager to manage a portfolio of data publishing products and services offered by our digital curation program, the UC Curation Center (UC3). Our new Senior Product Manager will have the opportunity and mandate to set the direction of UC3’s data publishing portfolio, ensuring that UC3 are […]
Lessons learned from organizing the first ever virtual csv,conf
This blogpost was collaboratively written by the csv,conf organizing team which includes John Chodacki from CDL. csv,conf is supported by the Sloan Foundation and the Moore Foundation. The original post can be found here: https://csvconf.com/going-online A brief history csv,conf is a community conference that brings diverse groups together to discuss data topics, and features stories about data […]
csv,conf,v5 moves online
csv,conf is a non-profit community conference run by folks who really love data and sharing knowledge. The first two years, organizers established the event’s scope and community in Berlin, Germany. The third and fourth year, the organizers moved the event to Portland, Oregon. And, starting this year, we hoped to move the event to Washington, […]
Open Data Metrics: Lighting the Fire
CDL has been working to promote responsible development and use of data metrics through the Make Data Count initiative and other community projects. Daniella Lowenberg and John Chodacki recently published a book capturing their thoughts on the matter. Check it out! http://opendatametrics.org Research data is at the center of science, and to date it has […]
UC Data Network: Lessons Learned
Scholars at the University of California need effective solutions to preserve their research data. This is essential for complying with funder mandates, publication requirements, policies, and evolving norms of scholarly best practice. However, several cost barriers have impeded consistent, comprehensive preservation of UC research data. In an attempt to tackle some of these challenges, California […]
csv,conf,v4: call for proposals
Although a ubiquitous term, the acronym CSV has varied meanings depending on who you ask. In the data space, CSV often translates to comma-separated values – a machine-readable data format used to store tabular data in plain text. To many, the format represents simplicity, interoperability, compactness, hackability, among other things. From when it first launched […]
Community-Owned Data Publishing Infrastructure
As a library community, we continue to struggle to find scalable approaches to offering open, shared, sustainable scholarly infrastructure. This is especially true in the data publishing and research data management space where institution-focused approaches to capturing and curating data may be hindering our ability to grow adoption by our researchers. To alleviate this impasse […]
Tackling the storage costs of digital preservation
Over the past year, California Digital Library (CDL) has facilitated a discussion between UC campus Vice Chancellors of Research (VCRs), Chief Information Officers (CIOs), and University Librarians (ULs) to explore pilot ideas for breaking down the high data storage costs associated with digital preservation. Our goal is to work in small, incremental ways towards building […]
Lessons from Dat in the Lab: Webinar
We have received several inquiries about the status of our Dat-in-the-Lab project. To share our project outputs, we held a webinar on Friday, October 19, 2018. We spent the webinar showcasing our work and opening up a dialogue with the community on next steps. As a reminder, the Dat-in-the-Lab project was funded by Gordon and Betty Moore […]