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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 […]
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 […]
Join CDL as a Senior Product Manager
California Digital Library (CDL) is recruiting a Senior Product Manager to manage a portfolio of data publishing products and services offered by our digital curation program, the UC Curation Center (UC3). Our new Senior Product Manager will have the opportunity and mandate to set the direction of UC3’s data publishing portfolio, ensuring that UC3 are […]
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 […]
Expanding the Carpentries Community in California Academic Libraries
Today we are announcing a new project to help build regional training partnerships in California. As the Data Services Librarian at the University of California, San Francisco, and co-chair of the Library Carpentry Advisory Committee, I have been privileged to witness the transformative impact of data and software training for librarians. Whether it is a cataloging […]
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 […]
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 […]
From Networking to Curation: Summing Up the 2018 Data Curation Unconference
Authors: Vessela Ensberg (UC Davis), Jeanine Finn (Claremont Colleges), Greg Janée (UC Santa Barbara/California Digital Library), Amy Neeser (UC Berkeley), Scott Peterson (UC Berkeley) The data curation unconference in 2018 took place prior to the UCDLFx meeting at UC Riverside. Nearly 30 attendees representing 11 institutions signed up to attend the event. In the course […]
Doing it Right: Get Credit for Your Research
Join research data specialists from University of California Curation Center to talk about planning, publishing, and getting your data out there. When: Friday, November 3rd 2:00pm Where: BIDS, UC Berkeley Doe Library There will be snacks.