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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 […]
Merritt is awarded a Mojgan Amini Operational Excellence Award at UC Tech 2022
We are excited to announce that Merritt, CDL’s digital preservation repository, has been awarded the Mojgan Amini Operational Excellence Award. This recognition comes at a time when the Merritt team continues to witness exponential growth in content submission from across the UC system. As the Awards committee highlighted: “Today, Merritt manages close to two and […]
Support your Data
Building an RDM Maturity Model: Part 4 By John Borghi Researchers are faced with rapidly evolving expectations about how they should manage and share their data, code, and other research products. These expectations come from a variety of sources, including funding agencies and academic publishers. As part of our effort to help researchers meet these expectations, […]
Dash: The Data Publication Tool for Researchers
We all know that research data should be archived and shared. That’s why Dash was created, a Data Publishing platform free to UC researchers. Dash complies with journal and funder requirements, follows best practices, and is easy to use. In addition, new features are continuously being developed to better integrate with your research workflow. Why […]
Talking About Data: Lessons from Science Communication
As a person who worked for years in psychology and neuroscience laboratories before coming to work in academic libraries, I have particularly strong feelings about ambiguous definitions. One of my favorite anecdotes about my first year of graduate school involves watching two researchers argue about the definition of “attention” for several hours, multiple times a […]
New Exhibit: Literatura de Cordel
end .entry-meta This exhibition highlights a collection of Brazilian chapbooks or Literatura de Cordel in the Moffitt Library. These chapbooks are still produced for mass consumption in the Northeastern Brazil. These are called literature de cordel as they are hung from a cord in the book-stands so that the consumers can browse them and select […]
By: A metadata vault for research data | Data Pub
[…] Project Svalbard. The goal is to create a global metadata vault for public research data, especially those at risk of disappearing. The initiative is named named after the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in the Arctic, which is an […]
By: steve jones/UCSC Alumni
Global Marshall Plan/Executive Summary: http://globalmarshallplan.neocities.org
Lit Review: #PLOSFail and Data Sharing Drama
I know what you’re thinking– how can yet another post on the #PLOSfail hoopla say anything new? Fear not. I say nothing particularly new here, but I do offer a three-weeks-out lit review of the hoopla, in hopes of finding a pattern in the noise. For those new to the #PLOSFail drama, the short version is […]
Institutional Repositories: Part 2
A few weeks back I wrote a post describing institutional repositories (IRs for short). IRs have been around for a while, with the impetus of making scholarly publications open access. However more recently, IRs have been cited as potential repositories for datasets, code, and other scholarly outputs. Here I continue the discussion of IRs and compare […]