UC Curation Center
UC3 is a creative partnership bringing together the expertise and resources of the University of California. Together we provide high quality and cost-effective solutions that enable campus constituencies — museums, libraries, archives, academic departments, research units, and individual researchers — to have direct control over the management, curation, and preservation of the information resources underpinning their scholarly activities.
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 edu.
Digital curation
Digital curation is the set of policies and practices aimed at maintaining and adding value to authentic digital resources for use now and into the future. The curation concepts underlying UC3's activities are described here. UC3 is developing Merritt, an innovative curation infrastructure in which to manage our stakeholders' digital content. The concept of emergent micro-services that informs this infrastructure is described here.
Webcasts
- November 18, 2010: OCLC TAI CHI Webinar Series (Technical Advances for Innovation in Cultural Heritage Institutions)
- October 20, 2010: Merritt Repository Service
- May 20, 2010: UC3 Microservices
Background Information
- 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
- EZID webinar slides, October 26, 2010
Community
- Google group: Digital curation
- Curate Camp
- 1st Curate Camp 2010, UC Berkeley, Aug 16-17
What they're saying
- Mike Giarlo (Penn State University)
- Ben O'Steen (Oxford University)
- Python in a pairtree (2009-10-15)
- Roy Tennant (OCLC)
- The New Face of Digital Preservation: Curation Micro Services (2010-07-08)
- A System of Merritt (2010-10-19)
- Neil Jacobs (JISC)
- Micro-services? (2010-12-08)
Service and tool specifications
Object Modeling
Identity Services
- Identity
- ARK: Archival Resource Key
- NOID: Nice Opaque Identifier (Minter and Name Resolver)
- N2T: Name-to-Thing
- UC3 Identifier Conventions
Storage Services
- Storage
- CAN: A Simple File System-Based Object Store
- D-flat: A Simple File System Convention for Digital Object Storage
- PairTree: Object Storage
- ReDD: Reverse Directory Deltas
Ingest Services
Fixity Service
Characterization Services
Access Services
Common Tools
- Anvl : A Simple Record Syntax
- Checkm: A Checksum-based Manifest Format
- Cutie: A Simple Directory-based Queuing Service
- Datenorm: Date normalization
- ERC : Electronic Resource Citation and Kernel Metadata
- LockIt: A Simple File-based Convention for Resource Locking
- Namaste: Directory Description with Namaste Tags
- RUU: (Are You You?): User account authentication
- THUMP: The HTTP URL Mapping Protocol
Discussion Groups
- Digital Curation (Google Group)