By: The UC3 Team Across the UC3 team, we specialize in topics in digital curation, digital preservation, and open research. We manage a range of…
Category: Digital Curation
Building Digital Content Management Capacity with Library Carpentry
In September, the Library hosted a Library Carpentry workshop to help library staff develop advanced digital skills and explore tools useful for managing digital collections and metadata. Building on the Library’s previous Software Carpentry workshop, the 2018 workshop presented an opportunity for us to explore the growing “Library Carpentry” curriculum. This effort, which adopts the […]
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…
Merritt and Dash Certified as Trustworthy Repositories
University of California Curation Center (UC3) is happy to announce that its Merritt repository and companion Dash data publishing platform have received CoreTrustSeal certification. This…
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…
Neuroimaging as a case study in research data management: Part 2
Part 2: On practicing what we preach Originally posted on Medium. A few weeks ago I described the results of a project investigating the data management…
Neuroimaging as a case study in research data management: Part 1
Part 1: What we did and what we found This post was originally posted on Medium. How do brain imaging researchers manage and share their…
Dat-in-the-Lab: Announcing UC3 research collaboration
We are excited to announce that the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has awarded a research grant to the California Digital Library and Code for Science & Society (CSS) for the Dat-in-the-Lab project to develop practical new techniques for effective data management in the academic research environment. Dat-in-the-Lab The project will pilot the use of CSS’s Dat… Read more »
PIDapalooza is back!
PIDapalooza is back, by popular demand! We’re building on the the best of the inaugural PIDapalooza and organizing two days packed with discussions, demos, informal and interactive sessions, updates, talks by leading PID innovators, and more. There will be lots of opportunities to network – and to learn from and engage with PID enthusiasts from around… Read more »
Centralized Digital Accessioning at Yale University
This is a guest post from Alice Prael, Digital Accessioning Archivist for Yale Special Collections at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University. As digital storage technology progresses, many archivists are left with boxes of obsolete storage media, such as floppy disks and ZIP disks. These physical storage media plague archives that […]