Data Publication
Embracing a New Era of Data Curation: A Vision for Openness and Innovation at UC3
At the University of California Curation Center (UC3), our commitment to advancing data curation and publishing is deeply rooted in our belief in open access and the open data movement. For years, we’ve worked to support researchers and ensure that UC scholarship resonates beyond academia. Our recent efforts, including our successful partnership with Dryad, are […]
A new opportunity to build a better (data) future
Last month I left my comfort zone. After 30 years of working as an engineer, developer, and technical leader at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO at UC San Diego), I started a new career as a Senior Product Manager and Research Data Specialist with UC Curation Center (UC3) at the California Digital Library. While it […]
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 […]
Research Data Publishing Redefined
By: Daniella Lowenberg In considering the title for this post, I struggled to narrow down the range of activities that I work on to a specific name and have landed on research data publishing (which is timely now four years after my first blog for UC3 defining data publishing). The reason this is difficult is […]
NSF Workshop Overview: Focusing on Researcher Perspectives
Since its founding, Dryad has hosted a researcher-led, open data publishing community and service. With the California Digital Library partnership in 2018, and reflecting on a decade of Dryad’s existence, we have spent time exploring what it means to remain a community-owned data publishing platform. By convening publishers, institutions, and other scholarly communications stakeholders to […]
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 […]
We Can’t Succeed Alone
Within the realm of research data management, libraries spend resources building and providing tools that are not within researcher workflows and/or are not aligned with researcher values. By doing this, we are setting ourselves up for failure. As mentioned in previous posts, part of my work is focused on incentivizing UC researchers to publish their […]
Community-Owned Data Publishing Infrastructure
As a library community, we continue to struggle to find scalable approaches to offering open, shared, sustainable scholarly infrastructure. This is especially true in the data publishing and research data management space where institution-focused approaches to capturing and curating data may be hindering our ability to grow adoption by our researchers. To alleviate this impasse […]
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 […]
The Datamirror.org Experiment: Preservation Assurance for Federal Research Data
In early 2017, UC3 created Datamirror.org as an independent, dynamic, online mirror of Data.gov, the US federal government’s primary research data portal. Developed in collaboration with Code for Science & Society (CSS), a non-profit organization supporting innovative uses of technology for public good, Datamirror was intended to provide additional levels of assurance that the significant […]