The Dash team has now added a second way to login and submit. In addition to using Single Sign-On, users now have the ability to login with ORCiD. This means that not only can you authenticate with ORCiD, but once you have logged in this way, your ORCiD ID will connect to your Dash account. … … Continue reading →
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Dash: The Data Publication Tool for Researchers
This post has been crossposted on Medium 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 … … Continue reading →
Disambiguating Dash and Merritt
What’s Dash? What’s Merritt? What’s the difference? After numerous questions about where things should go and what the differences are between our UC3 services, we got the hint that we are not communicating clearly. Clearing things up A group of us sat down and talked through different use cases and what wording we were using … … Continue reading →
Cirrus-ly Convenient Uploading
That was a cloud pun! Following our release two weeks ago, the Dash team is thrilled to present our newest functionality: you may now upload files directly from Box, Dropbox, and Google Drive! Let’s get you publishing (and citing and getting credit for your data): Using the “upload from server” option, you may enter up … … Continue reading →
Manifesting Large and Bulk File Data Publications– Now A Reality!
The Dash team is excited to announce our June feature release: Large and Bulk File upload. Taking into consideration the need for large size and file numbers of datasets, as well as the practicality of server timeouts, we have developed a new feature that allows for up to 1,000 files or 100gb* of data to … … Continue reading →
Make Data Count: Building a System to Support Recognition of Data as a First Class Research Output
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has made a 2-year, $747K award to the California Digital Library, DataCite and DataONE to support collection of usage and citation metrics for data objects. Building on pilot work, this award will result in the launch of a new service that will collate and expose data level metrics. The impact […]
Announcing New Dash Features- April 2017
The Dash team is pleased to announce the release of our newest features. Taking in requests from users as well as standards in the field, we have now adapted the platform with the following releases: Private for Peer Review (Timed-Release of Data), ORCiD integration, email capture for corresponding authors, user friendly downloads, and a variety of […]
Embargoing the Term “Embargoes” Indefinitely
I’m two months into a position that lends part of its time to overseeing Dash, a Data Publication platform for the University of California. On my first day I was told that a big priority for Dash was to build out an embargo feature. Coming to the California Digital Library (CDL) from PLOS, an OA publisher […]
California Digital Library Supports the Initiative for Open Citations
California Digital Library (CDL) is proud to announce our formal endorsement for the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC). CDL has long supported free and reusable scholarly work, as well as organizations and initiatives supporting citations in publication. With a growing database of literature and research data citations, there is a need for an open global […]
Describing the Research Process
We at UC3 are constantly developing new tools and resources to help researchers manage their data. However, while working on projects like our RDM guide for researchers, we’ve noticed that researchers, librarians, and people working in the broader digital curation space often talk about the research process in very different ways. To help bridge this […]