In 2017, CDL joined Code for Science & Society (CSS) on the dat in the lab project. The Moore Foundation-funded project is currently piloting the…
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Job Opening: UC3 Product Manager (EZID) / Research Data Specialist
California Digital Library (CDL) has built a strong portfolio of innovative projects and initiatives concerned with promoting the use of persistent identifiers throughout the scholarly…
How To Link Dash Data Publications With Your ORCiD Profile
Dash, the data publishing platform, is integrated with ORCiD, an author disambiguation service in a couple of different ways: you can login to Dash with…
Dash Releases First Submission REST API
Over the last year the Dash team has spent time surveying the community on incentives for and ways to drive adoption of data publishing practices.…
New hire: Library Carpentry Community & Development Director
We’re excited to announce that Chris Erdmann has been hired as the Library Carpentry Community and Development Director starting May 4, 2018. Chris has been…
PIDapalooza is back!
Guess what!?!? PIDapalooza is back! This time we will meet up with the nerdiest PID folks on January 23-24, for a two-day celebration of persistent identifiers and…
Skills Training for Librarians: Expanding Library Carpentry
In today’s data-driven, online and highly interconnected world, librarians are key to supporting diverse information needs and leading best practices to work with and manage data. For librarians to be effective in a rapidly evolving information landscape, training and professional development opportunities in both computational and data skills must be available and accessible. Over the… Read more »
RFI for organizational identifier registry
Organizations/institutions are a key part of the scholarly communications ecosystem. However, we lack an openly licensed, independently run organizational identifier standard to use for common affiliation and citation use cases. To define a solution to this problem, a group of interested parties drafted and shared a proposal at last year’s PIDapalooza. Based on that discussion, earlier… Read more »
The Significance of Managing Research Data
Some of the most influential research tools of the last century were created to ensure the quality of beer and extrapolate the results of agriculture experiments conducted in the English countryside. Though ostensibly about the placement of a decimal point, an ongoing debate about the application of these tools also provides a window for understanding… Read more »
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 »