Category: Merritt
Merritt Service Update: March 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities An updated roadmap summarizing our 2013 development priorities for Merritt is now available on the UC3 Curation Wiki: http://bit.ly/16O0hGK We are continuing work towards migrating the backend Merritt server environment from physical servers to Virtual […]
Merritt Service Update: February 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities We are migrating the backend Merritt server environment from physical servers to Virtual Machines (VM). All UCOP services are moving to VMs, and we believe that this will result in more stable services. We […]
Merritt Service Update: January 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities We’ve just created a listserv, merritt-l@ucop.edu. We will use the listserv to communicate with Merritt users, particularly with information about scheduled or unscheduled maintenances. We’ve added many people already working with Merritt (and […]
Temporary Changing of the Guard at UC3
Patricia Cruse, CDL’s Director of Digital Preservation (UC3), will be reducing her duties at the CDL between January 14 and June 30, 2013. Trisha will be working remotely from Italy and Spain while she accompanies her husband on his […]
UC3 Makes Customizable Outreach Materials Available
At the UC3 Workshops held in November, many of you mentioned wanting access to our outreach materials. Consequently, we have created a page (http://www.cdlib.org/uc3/resources/outreach.html) that pulls together flyers, logos, etc. for all of the services. Note that these are all customizable […]
Merritt Service Update: November – December 2012
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities We have made significant changes to Merritt’s Inventory micro-service architecture, which supports indexing of metadata records for search, browse, and display. The process involved transitioning from 4Store (an RDF-based database) to MySQL. This has […]
Merritt Service Update — September & October 2012
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities As part of the Datashare project, we developed several new features: Data user agreements (DUA): Curators may now require anyone downloading their data to first agree to a statement about using the data. Before […]
UC Librarians in Print
Five UC librarians have coauthored an article in the Journal of eScience Librarianship, “A Collaborative Framework for Data Management Services: The Experience of the University of California”. The abstract describes the article’s content as follows: The National Science Foundation and […]
Merritt Service Update – August 2012
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities public access to designated collections and objects integration with the CDL-developed eXtensible Text Framework (XTF), allowing for depositors to create tailored portals to designated public access collections streamlining of the Merritt administrative and submission […]
Merritt webinar, August 22, 2012
We will host a webinar on Wednesday, August 22, 2012 from 2:00-3:00pm (PT) to highlight new enhancements to Merritt. The webinar is open to the public, with a limit to the first 150 attendees; a recording will be made available […]