By Stephen Abrams, UC3 Associate Director CDL’s UC3 program has just completed a flurry of hiring to fill four positions, two funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Joshua Hubbard … More…
CDLINFO News: Merritt
Merritt Service Update: April 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Work is in‐progress and on track to migrate Merritt’s underlying technical infrastructure from physical servers to Virtual Machines (VM). (All UCOP services are … More…
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 … More…
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 … More…
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 … More…
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 … More…
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. … More…
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 … More…
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 … More…
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 … More…