Community Initiatives

The landscape of digital preservation and curation is large and complex, and demands a range of solutions and partners. UC3 is deeply engaged with a number of partners to provide the highest quality and most cost-effective solutions for digital curation to the UC community.

Chronopolis

Chronopolis is a national center for the management, long-term preservation, and promulgation of national digital assets, based at the University of California San Diego. Chronopolis is managed by the UCSD Libraries and the San Diego Supercomputer Center, and Brian Schottlaender, the Audrey Geisel University Librarian at UCSD, serves as Chronopolis' principal investigator. Funded initially by the Library of Congress' National Digital Information Infrastructure & Preservation Program, Chronopolis provides preservation for a wide range of collections around the United States. A number of the tools used within Chronopolis have been developed in conjunction with UC3 staff at CDL. More ...

DataCite

DataCite is an international initiative to improve access to research data on the internet. It will, through its members, establish and promote common methods, best practices, and guidance. UC3 is an active participant in this initiative. More ...

DataONE

DataONE is a project to ensure preservation and access to multi-scale, multi-discipline, and multi-national science data, funded by the US National Science Foundation. Patricia Cruse is a member of the leadership team, and other UC3 staff members are involved in work on metadata and technology. More ...

Hathi Trust

The HathiTrust is a multi-institutional repository for digital collections created by mass digitization projects with Google and the Open Content Alliance. UC3 staff members serve on the Strategic Advisory Board and also advise on technology. More ...

NAAN Registry

Name Assigning Authority Numbers (NAANs) identify organizations that assign identiers. UC3's EZID service is one system that uses them in assigning ARKs (Archival Resource Keys) and other identifiers. The complete registry of such organizations and their NAANs is hosted by CDL and mirrored at the (U.S.) National Library of Medicine and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. More ...

Portico

Portico preserves scholarly literature published in electronic form and ensures that these materials remain accessible to future scholars, researchers, and students. CDL is a member of Portico, and uses their repository service as an archive for many of the ejournals that UC libraries own. More ...