UC Curation Center: Curation Wiki
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.
Production Services
DMPTool helps researchers create and manage data management plans
- Service URL: https://dmp.cdlib.org/
- Service Manager: Perry Willett or uc3@ucop.edu
- Development Activities and Enhancements (forthcoming)
- Updates:
EZID (easy-eye-dee) makes it easy to create and manage unique, long-term identifiers.
- Service URL: http://n2t.net/ezid
- Service Manager: Joan Starr or uc3@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/ezid/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
- Latest news from CDLInfo (includes Monthly Reports)
- EZID outreach materials available on EZID's Outreach page.
- EZID Listserv
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 uc3@ucop.edu
- Development Activities and Enhancements
- Projects:
- DataShare
- UCSF project wiki (password protected)
- UC3's to-do list
- Trustworthy Repository Audit and Certification (TRAC)
- Cost modeling for sustainable services
- DataShare
- Updates:
The Web Archiving Service allows you to capture, analyze, archive and publish web sites and documents
- Service URL: http://was.cdlib.org/
- Service Manager: Rosalie Lack or washelp@ucop.edu
- Presentations
- Updates:
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: https://confluence.ucop.edu/display/Curation/ARK
- Contact: John Kunze or uc3@ucop.edu
DataUp (formerly DCXL)
The goal of the DataUp (formerly Digital Curation for Excel or "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: http://dataup.cdlib.org
- Contact: Carly Strasser or uc3@ucop.edu
JHOVE2
JHOVE2 is an open source next-generation application and framework for format-aware characterization.
- Service URL: http://jhove2.org/
- Contact: Stephen Abrams or uc3@ucop.edu
Unified Digital Format Registry (UDFR)
The UDFR is a reliable, publicly accessible, and sustainable 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
Additional Resources
- Merritt and Long-term Preservation v0.5 2012‐03‐01
- 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