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For more information about UC3 and our services, see our website. For specifications, documentation and technical information, see below, and please contact us with any questions: uc3 at ucop dot uc3@ucop.edu.
Production Services
DMPTool helps researchers create and manage data management plans
- Service URL: https://dmp.cdlibdmptool.org/
- Service Manager: Perry Willett Stephanie Simms or uc3@ucop.edu
- Development Activities and Enhancements (forthcoming)
- Updates:
- Latest news
- Subscribe to the DMP Tool DMPTool blog RSS feed
- Monthly reports (forthcoming)
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EZID (easy-eye-dee) makes it easy to create and manage unique, long-term identifiers.
- Service URL: http://n2t.net/ezidezid.cdlib.org
- Service Manager: Joan Starr or uc3@ucop Perry Willett or ezid@ucop.edu
- Development Activities and Enhancements
- System Status Information:
- The EZID Status Blog: http://ezidstatus.wordpress.com/
- Subscribe to the EZID Status RSS feed
- API inquiries (see the API documentation here: http://n2t.net/ezidezid.cdlib.org/doc/apidoc.html#server-status
- The CDL System Status Page: http://www.cdlib.org/contact/system.html
- Outreach and Communication
- EZID Listserv
- Join by invitation when you join EZID
Open Listserv archive: http://listserv.ucop.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A0=EZID-L
- Join by invitation when you join EZID
- EZID on Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/ezidCDL|https://twitter.com/#!/ezidCDL
- Latest news from CDLInfo
- Monthly reports (forthcoming)
- EZID Listserv
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- (includes Monthly Reports)
- EZID outreach materials available on EZID's Outreach page.
Merritt is a repository service that lets you manage, archive, and share valuable digital content
- Service URL: http://merritt.cdlib.org/
- Service Managers: Perry Willett and Adrian Turner or Manager: Eric Lopatin or uc3@ucop.edu
- Development Activities and Enhancements
- Projects:
- Merritt is a member node on the DataONE network
- DataShare
- UCSF project wiki (password protected)
- UC3's to-do list
- Trustworthy Repository Audit and Certification (TRAC)
- Cost modeling for sustainable services
- Merritt is a member node on the DataONE network
- Use Cases and Profiles:
- Updates:
- MERRITT-L user listserv (see here for help on subscribing)
- Latest news
- Monthly reports (forthcoming)
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- Service URL: http://was.cdlib.org/
- Service Manager: Tracy Seneca or washelp@ucop.edu
- Development Activities and Enhancements
- Updates:
- Latest news
- Monthly reports (forthcoming)
Other Projects, Tools, and Services
ARKs (Archival Resource Keys)
ARKs are URLs designed to support the persistent, long-term access to information objects
- Service URL: httpshttp://confluencen2t.ucop.edunet/display/Curation/ARKe/ark_ids.html
- Contact: John Kunze or uc3@ucop.edu
DCXL (Data Curation for Excel)
The goal of the DCXL project is to facilitate data management, sharing, and archiving for earth, environmental, and ecological scientists. The main result from the project will be an open source add-in for Microsoft Excel that will assist scientists in preparing their Excel data for sharing
- Service URL: or http://dcxlgroups.cdlib.org
- Contact: Carly Strasser or uc3@ucop.edu
- google.com/group/arks-forum
JHOVE2
JHOVE2 is an open source next-generation application and framework for format-aware characterization.
- Service URL: httphttps://jhove2bitbucket.org/jhove2/main/wiki/Home
- Contact: Stephen Abrams or uc3@ucop.edu
Unified Digital Format Registry (UDFR)
The UDFR is a reliable, publicly accessible, and sustainable was a knowledge base of file format representation information for use by the digital preservation community.
- Service URL: http://www.udfr.org/
- Contact: Stephen Abrams or uc3@ucop.edu
Our Infrastructure: Micro-Services
UC3 services and infrastructure -- including Merritt and EZID -- are based on a design paradigm known as "micro-services," in which a comprehensive body of preservation functions are devolved into a granular set of small, independent, but highly interoperable services.
- Additional Information: https://confluence.ucop.edu/display/Curation/Microservices
- Contact: uc3@ucop.edu
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Additional Resources
- Merritt and Long-term Preservation v0.5 2012‐03‐01 Rev. 1.06 2013?09?18
- Curation micro-services handout Rev. 0.4 (2010-08-13)
- UC3 Curation Foundations Rev 0.13 (2010-03-25)
- Merritt: An Emergent Micro-services Approach to Digital Curation Infrastructure Rev. 0.6 (2010-03-25)
- Stephen Abrams, Patricia Cruse, John Kunze, and David Minor, "Curation micro-services: A pipeline metaphor for repositories," OR 2010, The 5th International Conference on Open Repositories, Madrid, July 6-9, 2010
- "Curation micro-services: "It's a series of tubes", Curate Camp, Berkeley, August 16-17, 2010
- "Curation micro-services", lightning talk at iPRES 2010, Vienna, September 19-24, 2010