Digital Curation
A Peek Into 2021 for UC3
By: The UC3 Team Across the UC3 team, we specialize in topics in digital curation, digital preservation, and open research. We manage a range of services, leading and participating in initiatives to move these topic areas forward. We’ve found that while some collaborators and colleagues may already be familiar with what we do, the full […]
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 […]
Merritt and Dash Certified as Trustworthy Repositories
University of California Curation Center (UC3) is happy to announce that its Merritt repository and companion Dash data publishing platform have received CoreTrustSeal certification. This certification helps to instill transparency and accountability to our stakeholder communities, as it provides public evidence of our adherence to community-accepted norms for the preservation and and accessibility of managed […]
Additional preservation assurance with DPN
CDL is a founding member of the Digital Preservation Network (DPN), a coalition of over 50 academic libraries, foundations, and non-profit memory institutions dedicated to the long-term preservation of the scholarly and cultural record. UCLA and UCSD are also DPN members. DPN supports a high level of preservation assurance through widespread replication of digital assets […]
Neuroimaging as a case study in research data management: Part 2
Part 2: On practicing what we preach Originally posted on Medium. A few weeks ago I described the results of a project investigating the data management practices of neuroimaging researchers. The main goal of this work is to help inform efforts to address rigor and reproducibility in both the brain imaging (neuroimaging) and academic library communities. […]
Neuroimaging as a case study in research data management: Part 1
Part 1: What we did and what we found This post was originally posted on Medium. How do brain imaging researchers manage and share their data? This question, posed rather flippantly on Twitter a year and a half ago, prompted a collaborative research project. To celebrate the recent publication of a bioRxiv preprint, here is […]
Dat-in-the-Lab: Announcing UC3 research collaboration
We are excited to announce that the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has awarded a research grant to the California Digital Library and Code for Science & Society (CSS) for the Dat-in-the-Lab project to develop practical new techniques for effective data management in the academic research environment. Dat-in-the-Lab The project will pilot the use of CSS’s Dat […]
PIDapalooza is back!
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 interactive sessions, updates, talks by leading PID innovators, and more. There will be lots of opportunities to network – and to learn from and engage with PID enthusiasts from around […]
RDA-DMP movings and shakings
An update on RDA and our Active DMP work, courtesy of Stephanie Simms RDA Plenary 9 We had another productive gathering of #ActiveDMPs enthusiasts at the Research Data Alliance (RDA) plenary meeting in Barcelona (5-7 Apr). Just prior to the meeting we finished distilling all of the community’s wonderful ideas for machine-actionable DMP use cases […]
On the right track(s) – DCC release draws nigh
blog post by Sarah Jones Eurostar from Flickr by red hand records CC-BY-ND Preliminary DMPRoadmap out to test We’ve made a major breakthrough this month, getting a preliminary version of the DMPRoadmap code out to test on DMPonline, DMPTuuli and DMPMelbourne. This has taken longer than expected but there’s a lot to look forward to […]