Projects
High-Quality Metadata: A Collective Responsibility and Opportunity
Cross-posted from the Upstream Blog: https://upstream.force11.org/high-quality-metadata/ Our community and tools rely on high-quality DOI metadata for building connections and obtaining efficiencies. However, the current model – where improvements to this metadata are limited to its creators or done within service-level silos – perpetuates a system of large-scale gaps, inefficiency, and disconnection. It doesn’t have to be […]
Join the UC3 Team: Two Senior Product Manager positions now open
UC Curation Center (UC3) is recruiting two Senior Product Manager positions. This is a unique opportunity for someone passionate about shaping the future of scholarly infrastructure on a global scale. If you’re a creative thinker with a knack for innovation, strategic planning, and product management, please consider applying. The past few years have been full […]
Keep on ROR-ing: A Research Organization Registry Update
The Research Organization Registry (ROR) has had a big year! As CDL is a key partner in the ROR initiative, we are posting some updates here about what has been happening with ROR and where we’re going next. The first prototype of the ROR registry launched in January and now includes unique IDs and metadata […]
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 […]
Hear Us ROR! Announcing Our First Prototype and Next Steps
What has hundreds of heads, 91,000 affiliations, and roars like a lion? If you guessed the Research Organization Registry community, you’d be absolutely right! Last month was a big and busy one for the ROR project team: we released a working API and search interface for the registry, we held our first ROR community meeting, […]
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 […]
dat-in-the-lab: Announcing The Dat Anacapa Container
Today we are releasing Anacapa Container, which enables reproducibility of research environment and data across campuses. If you’ve been following our work over the last year you’ll be aware of the Dat in the Lab project, funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore foundation (read our previous writeups on a lab visit, eDNA, and containerization […]
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 […]
Org ID: a recap and a hint of things to come
Over the past couple of years, a group of organizations with a shared purpose—California Digital Library, Crossref, DataCite, and ORCID—invested our time and energy into launching the Org ID initiative, with the goal of defining requirements for an open, community-led organization identifier registry. The goal of our initiative has been to offer a transparent, accessible […]