Merritt
UC3 New Year Series: The Merritt Digital Preservation Repository in 2025
At UC3, we’re dedicated to advancing the fields of digital curation, digital preservation, and open data practices. Over the years, we’ve built and supported a range of services and actively led and collaborated on initiatives to open scholarship. With this in mind, we’re kicking off a new series of blog posts to highlight our core […]
Exploring Merritt’s Recent Growth
Taking a Look at Merritt’s New Collections, Project Updates, and Collaborations Merritt is CDL’s digital preservation repository. Merritt’s goal is to provide a comprehensive platform for digital preservation, ensuring valuable materials are securely stored and accessible for the long term. We regularly post updates on our projects and collaborations on the CDLInfo website. This post […]
Merritt Renews its CoreTrustSeal Certification
We are delighted to announce that the Merritt preservation repository has recently received a renewal of its CoreTrustSeal certification. The certification, which we first received four years ago, recognizes our commitment to ensuring the long-term preservation and accessibility of University of California archival collections. At this time, the Merritt repository holds over 400 collections composed […]
Merritt is awarded a Mojgan Amini Operational Excellence Award at UC Tech 2022
We are excited to announce that Merritt, CDL’s digital preservation repository, has been awarded the Mojgan Amini Operational Excellence Award. This recognition comes at a time when the Merritt team continues to witness exponential growth in content submission from across the UC system. As the Awards committee highlighted: “Today, Merritt manages close to two and […]
UCLA Digital Library Program & UC3 Collaborate to Reaffirm a Preservation Solution for the Strachwitz Frontera Collection
UCLA has long collaborated with the Arhoolie Foundation to provide digital access to and enable the preservation of the world’s largest known musical collection of historical Mexican and Mexican American commercial recordings: The Frontera Collection. Now, in a renewed effort and in collaboration with UC3, UCLA’s Digital Library Program (DLP) has begun to enhance and […]
Themes for Digital Preservation
By: Eric Lopatin Since our inception, a main focus of UC3 has been to deliver high quality, reliable digital preservation services for the UC community. Currently, this takes the form of both consultative and community engagement work, as well as technical development to ensure our digital preservation repository, Merritt, remains durable and innovative. For 2021, […]
Streamlining Merritt Microservice Configuration
Working with a Centralized Parameter Store and how Merritt Stands to Benefit – Eric Lopatin, Terry Brady, Marisa Strong – Introduction There are many paths forward for the technology stack that underpins any digital preservation system. It’s often the process of choosing an appropriate path that can be challenging, rather than enumerating any number […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]