• Strasser presented on DataUp for the Helmholtz Open Access Webinar Series on May 6 and May 14. The presentation is available at http://oa.helmholtz.de/index.php?id=309 – c2231.
• Strasser presented on DataUp for the Council on Library and Information Resources Symposium (webinar, May 14). Slides are available at http://www.slideshare.net/carlystrasser/clir-synchronous-session-dataup.
• The DataUp group is in conversations with potential funders about the next round of development for DataUp.

DataUp Service Description
The DataUp add-in and web application help researchers organize, manage, archive, and share their tabular data. The major functionality of both tools is to guide researchers through the following:

• Carry out a best practices check to determine if there are issues present that might make use or interpretation of the data difficult
• Create metadata in standardized EML (Ecological Metadata Language) format
• Describe the attributes (i.e. columns) of the dataset in standard EML format
• Obtain a unique identifier for the dataset
• Generate a data citation
• Post the data and associated metadata to a data repository

DataUp Service Manager
Carly Strasser carly.strasser@ucop.edu or uc3@ucop.edu.

DataUp Training Materials, Guides, FAQs and Webinars
The most current DataUp information is on the website (http://dataup.cdlib.org). This includes frequently asked questions and instructions on accessing and using DataUp. Other relevant sites include the code site (https://bitbucket.org/dataup/main) and the web application site (http://dataup.org).

Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities

• We gathered potential stakeholders of DataUp in Santa Barbara, CA for a meeting to discuss the tool’s future directions. The meeting took place April 2‐3 at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS). The meeting report is available at
  https://bitbucket.org/dataup/main/downloads/DataUpReport.pdf.
• Strasser held a DataUp workshop at the UC Berkeley Library on April 11.
• Strasser virtually presented on DataUp at the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) 2013 Meeting in Indianapolis, IN. The video is available at http://vimeo.com/63614563.
• Strasser presented on DataUp at a workshop for graduate students during the International Association of Landscape Ecologists 2013 Meeting in Austin, TX on April 16. Slides available at http://www.slideshare.net/carlystrasser/dataup-for-the-iale-2013-meeting.
• Strasser visited the California Polytechnic State University on April 18 and presented on DataUp to the librarians and researchers. Slides available at http://www.slideshare.net/carlystrasser/dataup-presentation-at-cal-poly.

DataUp Service Description
The DataUp add-in and web application help researchers organize, manage, archive, and share their tabular data. The major functionality of both tools is to guide researchers through the following:

• Carry out a best practices check to determine if there are issues present that might make use or interpretation of the data difficult
• Create metadata in standardized EML (Ecological Metadata Language) format
• Describe the attributes (i.e. columns) of the dataset in standard EML format
• Obtain a unique identifier for the dataset
• Generate a data citation
• Post the data and associated metadata to a data repository

DataUp Service Manager
Carly Strasser carly.strasser@ucop.edu or uc3@ucop.edu.

DataUp Training Materials, Guides, FAQs and Webinars
The most current DataUp information is on the website (http://dataup.cdlib.org). This includes frequently asked questions and instructions on accessing and using DataUp. Other relevant sites include the code site (https://bitbucket.org/dataup/main) and the web application site (http://dataup.org).

The California Digital Library received a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) last year to develop education and outreach materials for librarians surrounding the DMPTool, a service that helps researchers create and manage data management plans. As part of this grant, the DMPTool Partners are running a DMPTool Webinar series that will cover topics related to data curation, data management, and using the DMPTool to promote these topics. 

Check here for the webinar schedule & information (updated frequently): http://blogs.library.ucla.edu/dmptool/webinar-series/

A few things to note:

• The first webinar will be on Tuesday, May 28. We plan to present on Tuesdays, with current plans for ~15 webinars. The series will go into Fall 2013. 
• All webinars will be recorded and made available for viewing afterward.
• The webinar schedule depends on presenters’ availability (hence the TBD dates).
• We are always interested in new webinar ideas; please send them to Carly Strasser (carly.strasser@ucop.edu) or leave them as a comment on the webinar page.
• We plan to collect these webinars and make them available as a set. We then hope to create a short course in Data Management with the DMPTool that will offer certification for librarians as “DMPTool Experts” –we are still working on the title!

 Please circulate widely – the webinar series for anyone interested in promoting and/or using the DMPTool!

Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities

• Strasser provided a demonstration of DataUp to attendees at the Beyond the PDF 2 Conference, held in Amsterdam.
• Strasser submitted a paper on DataUp and the DMPTool to the Research Data Management
  Infrastructure Meeting in Washington DC. The PDF is available here.
• Strasser presented a webinar to the USGS community on DataUp; slides are available here.
• Strasser attended UC Merced Library’s Research Week Events and presented on DataUp; slides are available here.
• We had an intern, Sarina Sinick, from the University of Illinois working at the CDL on DataUp as part of the GSLIS Alternative Spring Break. She focused on improving the DataUp technical documentation.
• We reorganized the DataUp BitBucket site to improve readability and usability.

DataUp Service Description
The DataUp add-in and web application help researchers organize, manage, archive, and share their tabular data. The major functionality of both tools is to guide researchers through the following:

• Carry out a best practices check to determine if there are issues present that might make use or interpretation of the data difficult
• Create metadata in standardized EML (Ecological Metadata Language) format
• Describe the attributes (i.e. columns) of the dataset in standard EML format
• Obtain a unique identifier for the dataset
• Generate a data citation
• Post the data and associated metadata to a data repository

DataUp Service Manager
Carly Strasser carly.strasser@ucop.edu or uc3@ucop.edu.

DataUp Training Materials, Guides, FAQs and Webinars
The most current DataUp information is on the website (http://dataup.cdlib.org). This includes frequently asked questions and instructions on accessing and using DataUp. Other relevant sites include the code site (https://bitbucket.org/dataup/main) and the web application site (http://dataup.org).

Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities

• Strasser, Kunze, and Cruse presented DataUp as a poster at the 2013 International Data Curation Conference, held in Amsterdam in January, receiving 2nd place in the poster competition.
• Strasser presented the DataUp poster at the 2013 iConference in Fort Worth, Texas in February.
• We have been working towards securing future funding for DataUp development via both governmental and non-governmental grants, as well as partnerships with academic and non-academic organizations interested in the tool.
• We are planning a meeting to discuss the future of DataUp in Santa Barbara in April.
• We released the User’s guide for the DataUp web-based application, which is now available on the https://bitbucket.org/dataup/main/downloads (a free source code hosting service).

DataUp Service Description
The DataUp add-in and web application help researchers organize, manage, archive, and share their tabular data. The major functionality of both tools is to guide researchers through the following:

• Carry out a best practices check to determine if there are issues present that might make use or interpretation of the data difficult
• Create metadata in standardized EML (Ecological Metadata Language) format
• Describe the attributes (i.e. columns) of the dataset in standard EML format
• Obtain a unique identifier for the dataset
• Generate a data citation
• Post the data and associated metadata to a data repository

DataUp Service Manager
Carly Strasser carly.strasser@ucop.edu or uc3@ucop.edu.

DataUp Training Materials, Guides, FAQs and Webinars
The most current DataUp information is on the website (http://dataup.cdlib.org). This includes frequently asked questions and instructions on accessing and using DataUp. Other relevant sites include the code site (https://bitbucket.org/dataup/main) and the web application site (https://dataup.org/).

• We successfully established a “Practice Repository” for DataUp, allowing those interested in using DataUp in practice mode to get an identifier and archive their practice data without impacting the legitimate content in ONEShare.
• DataUp was featured at the Microsoft Research booth during the American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2012 Fall Meeting in San Francisco, CA (3-7 December). Visitors to the booth could watch a demonstration of DataUp and ask questions about its features.
• Strasser presented on DataUp at the AGU meeting for a session on tools and workflows for research data (invited).
• DataUp was presented at the Coalition for Networked Information 2012 Members Meeting in Washington, DC (10-11 December) by Strasser. The presentation was part of a session on tools for managing and archiving research data.
• We presented DataUp to the UC libraries community at two, two-day workshops on data curation in early November. The first workshop took place in Oakland (8-9 November), and the second was at UC Irvine (13-14 November).

DataUp Service Description
The DataUp add-in and web application help researchers organize, manage, archive, and share their tabular data. The major functionality of both tools is to guide researchers through the following:

• Carry out a best practices check to determine if there are issues present that might make use or interpretation of the data difficult
• Create metadata in standardized EML (Ecological Metadata Language) format
• Describe the attributes (i.e. columns) of the dataset in standard EML format
• Obtain a unique identifier for the dataset
• Generate a data citation
• Post the data and associated metadata to a data repository

DataUp Service Manager
Carly Strasser carly.strasser@ucop.edu or uc3@ucop.edu.

DataUp Training Materials, Guides, FAQs and Webinars
The most current DataUp information is on the website (http://dataup.cdlib.org). This includes frequently asked questions and instructions on accessing and using DataUp. Other relevant sites include the code site (https://bitbucket.org/dataup/main) and the web application site (http://dataup.org).

Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities

• We formally launched DataUp on 2 October. Most of September was devoted to preparing for this launch. This included close coordination among several groups, including CDL, Microsoft Research, OuterCurve Foundation, and DataONE.
• We worked with the developers worked throughout October to correct bugs that were prohibiting the creation of valid metadata by DataUp. DataUp code was finalized by the developers contracted by Microsoft in November.
• We completed the main DataUp website development in close collaboration with the User Experience Design Team at CDL.
• We acquired the appropriate certificates for the DataUp web application and web service, both hosted on Microsoft® Azure.
• We set up and populated the public DataUp BitBucket site, with code, documentation, links, and known issues with the software.
• We worked closely with DataONE and the University of New Mexico Library to set up the ONEShare repository, created exclusively for DataUp data. We ensured that content was successfully entering ONEShare and the metadata generated was valid.
• The DataUp blog was moved to the Data Pub blog site, and content was merged to create a single CDL data blog. The URL formerly used for the DataUp blog will now house the main DataUp website.
• We hosted a DataUp webinar on 3 October, which was attended by at least 70 individuals. The slides (http://www.slideshare.net/carlystrasser/dataup-webinar-20121002 and recording http://www.cdlib.org/services/uc3/webinars/20121003/lib/playback.html) are now available.
• DataUp team members attended the 2012 Microsoft eScience Workshop (8-9 October in Chicago). DataUp was part of the workshop “DemoFest”, where workshop attendees could observe someone using the tool and ask questions.
• On 24 October, DataUp was featured in the “Tools” section of a workshop for researchers at UC Davis. The Workshop was one of the Open Access Week activities.

DataUp Service Description
The DataUp add-in and web application help researchers organize, manage, archive, and share their tabular data. The major functionality of both tools is to guide researchers through the following:

• Carry out a best practices check to determine if there are issues present that might make use or interpretation of the data difficult
• Create metadata in standardized EML (Ecological Metadata Language) format
• Describe the attributes (i.e. columns) of the dataset in standard EML format
• Obtain a unique identifier for the dataset
• Generate a data citation
• Post the data and associated metadata to a data repository

DataUp Service Manager
Carly Strasser carly.strasser@ucop.edu and Trisha Cruse patricia.cruse@ucop.edu or uc3@ucop.edu.

DataUp Training Materials, Guides, FAQs and Webinars
The October 3rd DataUp slides ( http://www.slideshare.net/carlystrasser/dataup-webinar-20121002 and recording http://www.cdlib.org/services/uc3/webinars/20121003/lib/playback.html) are now available. The most current DataUp information is on the website (http://dataup.cdlib.org). This includes frequently asked questions and instructions on accessing and using DataUp.

For the last month we have been preparing for the release of the DataUp tool, scheduled for 2 October. We are coordinating our launch with the outreach and communication efforts of Microsoft Research, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, OuterCurve Foundation, and DataONE. Launch preparations in the last month have included developing website content, acquiring the appropriate certificates for the new DataUp websites, writing the press release for the DataUp launch, and negotiating the contracts of project completion and website hosting with Microsoft Research. A screencast demonstrating the web application’s functionality was created for the website as well. The current content at dataup.cdlib.org, the blog, will be moved to the datapub.cdlib.org to make room for the new DataUp website. In early August, DataUp was featured in a workshop at the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting in Portland Oregon, where the attendees much anticipate the tool’s release.

DataUp Service Description
The DataUp add-in and web application help researchers organize, manage, archive, and share their tabular data. The major functionality of both tools is to guide researchers through the following:

• Carry out a best practices check to determine if there are issues present that might make use or interpretation of the data difficult
• Create metadata in standardized EML (Ecological Metadata Language) format
• Describe the attributes (i.e. columns) of the dataset in standard EML format
• Obtain a unique identifier for the dataset
• Generate a data citation
• Post the data and associated metadata to a data repository

DataUp Service Manager
Carly Strasser carly.strasser@ucop.edu and Trisha Cruse patricia.cruse@ucop.edu or uc3@ucop.edu.

DataUp Training Materials, Guides, FAQs and Webinars
The most current DataUp information is on the website (http://dataup.cdlib.org). Mark your calendars for the 2012 DataUp webinar on October 3rd at 2:00 PM! This webinar will showcase the new tool and describe how it can be used to help researchers with data stewardship. See http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2012/09/20/dataup-webinar-oct-3/ for details on how to sign-up for the webinar.

Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities
For the last month we have been testing out beta versions of the DataUp tools and relaying issues and bugs to the Microsoft Research developers. We received a beta version of the tools in mid-July and demonstrated the add-in to the DataONE (http://www.dataone.org) users group and at the Federation of Earth Science Information Partners meeting (ESIP). There is much excitement about the DataUp tools, and CDL is evaluating strategies for continued development over the next 12 months. In addition to presentations at the DataONE users group meeting and ESIP meetings, the DataUp tool was featured at the Library of Congress’ Digital Preservation meeting this month.

We have received the final version of the two DataUp software tools from Microsoft Research developers and are now preparing for the public launch of the tools on September 18, 2012. We are coordinating our launch with the outreach and communication efforts of Microsoft Research, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, OuterCurve Foundation, and DataONE.

DataUp Service Description
The DataUp add-in and web application help researchers organize, manage, archive, and share their tabular data. The major functionality of both tools is to guide researchers through the following:

• Carry out a best practices check to determine if there are issues present that might make use or interpretation of the data difficult
• Create metadata in standardized EML (Ecological Metadata Language) format
• Describe the attributes (i.e. columns) of the dataset in standard EML format
• Obtain a unique identifier for the dataset
• Generate a data citation
• Post the data and associated metadata to a data repository

DataUp Service Manager
Carly Strasser – carly.strasser@ucop.edu and Trisha Cruse patricia.cruse@ucop.edu or uc3@ucop.edu.

DataUp Training Materials, Guides, FAQs and Webinars
The most current DataUp information is on the website (http://dataup.cdlib.org). We have not yet created training materials, guides, or FAQs for the DataUp tools.