A description of the services provided by the California Digital Library for the University of California

1. CDL: Supporting
the Research Life Cycle
Perry Willett
University of California Curation Center
California Digital Library

2. University of California:
• 10 campuses, 5 medical centers, 3 national laboratories
• 238,000 students
• 190,000 faculty members and staff
• $4.7 billion in research funding and external grants

3. California Digital Library:
• Part of the University of California
• Located organizationally in the Office of the President

4. UC3:
Partnership between CDL | 10 UC campuses | Peer institutions
Provide solutions, services, resources for digital assets
Pool & distribute diverse experience, expertise, & resources

5. A life cycle approach
Create, edit, share, and save
data management plans
Curation repository:
store, manage, and share research data
Self-service tool for metadata creation
and submission to Merritt data
repository
Create and manage
long-term identifiers
collect
Open Access publishing services /
dynamic research platform
plan
manage
share

6. A life cycle approach
Create, edit, share, and save
data management plans
Curation repository:
store, manage, and share research data
Create and manage
long-term identifiers
plan
Open Access publishing services /
dynamic research platform
Self-service tool for metadata creation
and submission to Merritt data
repository

7. DMPTool
• Connect researchers to resources
to create a data management plan
• NSF and directorates, NIH, NEH,
IMLS, foundations plus
• Customizable
Meeting funding agencies data management plan requirements
Primary Functions
1. Step-by-step “wizard”
2. Templates and examples
3. Links to institutional resources and agency information
4. Plan publication and sharing

8. • Precise identification of a dataset
(DOI or ARK)
• Credit to data producers and data
publishers
• A link from the traditional literature
to the data
• Exposure and research metrics for
datasets
(Web of Knowledge, Google)
Primary Functions
1. Create long term identifiers
2. Manage identifiers (and associated
metadata) over time
3. Resolve identifiers
EZID
Long term identifiers made easy
@ezidCDL

9. A life cycle approach
Create, edit, share, and save
data management plans
Curation repository:
store, manage, and share research data
Create and manage
long-term identifiers
collect
Open Access publishing services /
dynamic research platform
Self-service tool for metadata creation
and submission to Merritt data
repository

14. A life cycle approach
Create, edit, share, and save
data management plans
Curation repository:
store, manage, and share research data
Create and manage
long-term identifiers
Open Access publishing services /
dynamic research platform
Self-service tool for metadata creation
and submission to Merritt data
repository
share

15. Merritt
• Developed and supported in-house
• “Model free”
– No prescriptive requirements regarding format, structure, metadata,
or genre
• UI and REST API
• Strongly versioned
– Any change to data or metadata triggers a new version
– All previous versions can be re-instantiated for retrieval
– Intra-version compression (forward deltas) minimizes storage
duplication

16. Merritt
• Metadata
– User supplied: descriptive, …
– System augmented: technical, structural, provenance
• Replication and audit
– Across two technologies
• OpenStack/Swift
• WAN NFS
– Across two locations
• UCLA (two internal replicas)
• UCSD/SDSC (three internal replicas)

17. eScholarship

18. • UC’s institutional repository and publishing
platform
• 90,000 publications
• 78 open access journals
• Repository for UC’s Open Access policy:
“…future research articles authored by faculty at all 10
campuses of UC will be made available to the public at
no charge.”
eScholarship

19. A life cycle approach
plan
collect
manage
share

20. For more information
UC3 Data Management Planning Resources
http://www.cdlib.org/uc3
https://dash.berkeley.edu
https://dmptool.org
http://ezid.cdlib.org
Twitter:
– @ezidCDL
– @UC3CDL
– @TheDMPTool
– @CalDigLib
Email: uc3@ucop.edu