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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 […]
csv,conf,v4: call for proposals
Although a ubiquitous term, the acronym CSV has varied meanings depending on who you ask. In the data space, CSV often translates to comma-separated values – a machine-readable data format used to store tabular data in plain text. To many, the format represents simplicity, interoperability, compactness, hackability, among other things. From when it first launched […]
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 […]
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 […]
Greg Janée in Transition
Greg Janée, lead developer for the EZID service, has recently stepped up to be the Director of the Data Curation Program at the UCSB Library. Greg, who joined CDL’s UC3 team at 50% time 10 years ago, shifted to CDL’s infrastructure team for a few years, and until June 2019 will work again with […]
The Strategic Value of Library Carpentry and The Carpentries to Research Libraries
Originally posted by Elaine L. Westbrooks The Strategic Value of Library Carpentry and The Carpentries to Research Libraries The Data Science Community Newsletter, a helpful resource by Laura Noren and Brad Stanger, helps us track all the data science initiatives sweeping through higher ed. Brown, Harvard, NYU, Stanford, UC Irvine, UIUC, University of Michigan, and others have […]
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 […]
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 […]