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UC3 New Year Series: Data Publishing at CDL in 2025 

Structured, well-documented, and FAIR-aligned data is the foundation of effective research dissemination. However, data publishing activities have often focused on the last step in the research process. This puts energy on helping researchers clean up disorganized data sets and placing them in repositories. While this is essential to ensuring accessibility and preservation of important data […]

Library Carpentry Advisory Group Welcomes New Members

Following on from January’s Call for Applications, The Library Carpentry Advisory Group is pleased to welcome seven new members to our team. Selected from a pool of excellent applicants, they will begin their 3-year terms this month. Please join us in welcoming: Sara King – Australia Dr Sara King is the Training and Engagement Lead for AARNet. She is focused […]

Expanding Data and Software Skills Training

The UC3 team consults with the broad UC library community regarding research data management and data publishing in various capacities.  Over the past several years, we have seen a keen interest in expanding skills training opportunities for librarians in the areas of data skills and software skills. In an effort to amplify existing training programs […]

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 […]

Farewell and Thank You to Chris Erdmann

UC3 will bid farewell to Chris Erdmann on September 30th. Chris joined UC3 in May 2018 as Library Carpentry Community & Development Director and has spent the past year and a half expanding the Library Carpentry community in many ways. Chris is moving on to a new role at UNC Chapel Hill, but he will continue […]

Library Carpentry Receives Supplemental IMLS Grant

In November 2017, the California Digital Library (CDL) announced a two-year Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) grant funded project to further advance the scope, adoption, and impact of Library Carpentry across the US. The grant enables CDL and the University of California Curation Center (UC3) to host Chris Erdmann, the Library Carpentry Community and Development Director, […]

A Carpentries-Based Approach to Teaching FAIR Data and Software Principles

originally posted by Chris Erdmann Recently, I was lucky to participate in an innovative workshop held at Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) Hannover from 9 – 13 July, 2018, which paired The Carpentries’ pedagogical style of teaching and lesson material with in-depth background on the FAIR Data Principles. FAIR comprises a set of guiding principles to make […]

New hire: Library Carpentry Community & Development Director

We’re excited to announce that Chris Erdmann has been hired as the Library Carpentry Community and Development Director starting May 4, 2018. Chris has been working in the libraries for more than 21 years to integrate data management and workflows in database and library systems and has been working with research and library communities through […]

Skills Training for Librarians: Expanding Library Carpentry

In today’s data-driven, online and highly interconnected world, librarians are key to supporting diverse information needs and leading best practices to work with and manage data. For librarians to be effective in a rapidly evolving information landscape, training and professional development opportunities in both computational and data skills must be available and accessible. Over the […]