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Digital Preservation

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 […]

Internet Archive, Code for Science and Society, and California Digital Library to Partner on a Data Sharing and Preservation Pilot Project

In 2017, CDL joined Code for Science & Society (CSS) on the dat in the lab project. The Moore Foundation-funded project is currently piloting the use of the Dat Protocol in UC labs for data capture, data storage, and data sharing. As our first year comes to a close, the project team has started looking […]

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 […]

Ensuring access to critical research data

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 Dat Project) to aggregate the government data. Data that spans the globe There are currently volunteers across the country working to discover and preserve publicly funded research, especially climate data, from […]

Government Data At Risk

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 fact that, historically, a vast amount of government data and digital information is at risk of disappearing in the transition between presidential administrations. For example, between 2008 and 2012, over […]