CDL: Supporting the Research Life Cycle

Perry WillettUniversity of California Curation Center

California Digital Library

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

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

UC3:Partnership between CDL | 10 UC campuses | Peer institutions

Provide solutions, services, resources for digital assets

Pool & distribute diverse experience, expertise, & resources

A life cycle approachCreate, 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

A life cycle approachCreate, 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

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 Functions1. Step-by-step “wizard”

2. Templates and examples

3. Links to institutional resources and agency information

4. Plan publication and sharing

• 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 Functions1. Create long term identifiers

2. Manage identifiers (and associated metadata) over time

3. Resolve identifiers

EZIDLong term identifiers made easy

@ezidCDL

A life cycle approachCreate, 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

A life cycle approachCreate, 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

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

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)

eScholarship

• 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

A life cycle approach

plan

collect

manage

share

For more informationUC3 Data Management Planning Resources

http://www.cdlib.org/uc3https://dash.berkeley.eduhttps://dmptool.orghttp://ezid.cdlib.org

Twitter: – @ezidCDL – @UC3CDL– @TheDMPTool– @CalDigLib

Email: uc3@ucop.edu