Development

Digital Preservation at CDL: Where We Are Headed

At CDL, our digital preservation strategy hinges on offering trusted, reliable, low-cost preservation services to the University of California. Over the past year, we’ve been busy moving forward with these values in mind.  Along the way, the Merritt team has achieved its CoreTrust Seal certification for our preservation repository, evaluated two new cloud storage solutions, […]

Merritt, a redesigned digital repository

We’ve updated the Merritt UI design! This redesign is intended to showcase our certification as a CoreTrustSeal trustworthy data repository and highlight some of the library and archival projects that entrust their preservation to Merritt. With this update come updates to the Merritt web interface to: Design – now matches the style across the new […]

UC3’s Development Culture

UC3 takes an iterative deployment approach based on Agile principles. Our development is driven by user-centered design by which product (service) managers gather the needs of our stakeholders and translate them into prioritized use cases.  By placing the needs of stakeholders and users at the center of our analysis and design, we develop services and […]

Dash: 2017 in Review

The goal for Dash in 2017 was to build out features that would make Dash a desirable place to publish data. While we continue to work with the research community to find incentives to publish data generally, the small team of us working on Dash wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who published […]

Test-driving the Dash read-only API

The Dash Data Publication service is now allowing access to dataset metadata and public files through a read-only API. This API focuses on allowing metadata access through a RESTful API. Documentation is available at https://dash.ucop.edu/api/docs/index.html. There are a number of ways to test out and access this API such as through programming language libraries or […]