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Introducing the Merritt Curation Repository

Introducing the Merritt Curation Repository. University of California Curation Center California Digital Library November 20, 2010. Introducing Merritt. What is Merritt? Who can use Merritt? What content can go into Merritt? How can Merritt be used? Demonstration Next steps Summary

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Introducing the Merritt Curation Repository

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  1. Introducing theMerritt Curation Repository University of California Curation CenterCalifornia Digital Library November 20, 2010

  2. Introducing Merritt • What is Merritt? • Who can use Merritt? • What content can go into Merritt? • How can Merritt be used? • Demonstration • Next steps • Summary • Discussion

  3. Merritt Merritt is a new cost-effective repository service that lets the UC community manage, share, and preserve digital content Merritt is the continuation of the existing Digital Preservation Repository (DPR) service Merritt is positioned to support the Digital Library Services Task Force (DLSTF) recommendations • “Capture a significant percentage of new content streams” • “Provide campuses with infrastructure to … manage, share, and preserve their collections” • “Enable easy discovery and use” DLSTF, Final Report, December 18, 2009

  4. Capture new content streams Merritt is content agnostic • Contributors can submit any content in any form • Content can be accompanied by any (or no) metadata While all forms of content are acceptable, certain forms are preferable • UC3 offers guidance and best practice recommendations for content creation that is inherently amenable to long-term curation Merritt supports simplified submission workflows • Flickr-like interface for people • RESTful API for machines

  5. Manage, share, and preserve UC3 operates Merritt as a centrally-hosted service, but the underlying technology can be easily deployed for local use on campuses • Merritt is built from a micro-services “toolkit” of reusable, and re-combinable, components http://www.cdlib.org/uc3/curation Merritt provides comprehensive function to deposit, store, update, preserve, search, deliver, and export digital content Content can be placed into any number of collections defined to meet curatorial purposes

  6. Easy discovery and use All Merritt content objects have identifiers for persistent reference • EZID “Long-term identifiers made easy” http://www.cdlib.org/uc3/ezid Merritt includes a comprehensive metadata catalog of all content • Metadata is semantically exposed as Linked Data Content (and metadata) retrieval can take place at the object, version, or file level • Merritt is strongly versioned to preserve object provenance as content and metadata evolve over time

  7. Using Merritt you can… Take control of your content and provide access how and when you want Share with others Meet the data sustainability requirements of grant-funded research • UC received over $600 million from NSF in 2009 • In the future, NSF grantees must have a sustainability plan Provide long-term preservation • Checksums, storage replication, technology watch

  8. Introducing Merritt • What is Merritt? • Who can use Merritt? • What content can go into Merritt? • How can Merritt be used? • Demonstration • Next steps • Summary • Discussion

  9. Merritt is available to UC and non-UC partners Use of Merritt is available to all faculty, research staff, and administrative units of the University of California • Libraries, archives, museums • Academic departments • ORUs/MRUs • Data centers Use is also offered to content partners outside of the University • Academic, commercial, and non-profit sectors

  10. Introducing Merritt • What is Merritt? • Who can use Merritt? • What content can go into Merritt? • How can Merritt be used? • Demonstration • Next steps • Summary • Discussion

  11. Merritt is content agnostic CDL eScholarship Open access publishing Open Context Archaeological Minnesota Historical Society Legislative history Media Hub Program Museum collections California Digital Newspaper Collection News media Water Resource Center Archive Environmental UCTV Multi-media DataONE member node Scientific UC3 Web Archiving Service Everything UC3 legacy DPR collections Anything … and lots more!

  12. Introducing Merritt • What is Merritt? • Who can use Merritt? • What content can go into Merritt? • How can Merritt be used? • Demonstration • Next steps • Summary • Discussion

  13. Using Merritt Dark archive for important digital assets • Similar to existing DPR usage Bright archive with direct discovery and access • California legislative library • Part of grant-funded research data sustainability plan Preservation back-end for existing or new discovery and content management systems • eScholarship, Media Hub, Minnesota Historical Society, Open Context Integration with distributed data grids • Chronopolis, DataONE member node Local deployments for special-purpose campus repositories

  14. Next-generation digital repository The NGTS New Modes for Access task force has identified a useful set of criteria for “indispensible services” of a next-generation digital library • Search, browsing … that “exploit interconnected information about resources” • Services for augmenting resources, to enable features such as annotation • Dissemination and notification services • Security and policy assurance, namely authentication and access control mechanisms • Services providing interoperability • Preservation services, to ensure versioning and archiving • Quality assurance services, to ensure authenticity Kruk and McDaniel, “Goals of semantic digital libraries” Semantic Digital Libraries (Berlin: Springer, 2009) The NGTS New Modes for Access task force has identified a useful set of criteria for “indispensible services” of a next-generation digital library • Search, browsing … that “exploit interconnected information about resources” • Services for augmenting resources, to enable features such as annotation • Dissemination and notification services • Security and policy assurance, namely authentication and access control mechanisms • Services providing interoperability • Preservation services, to ensure versioning and archiving • Quality assurance services, to ensure authenticity Kruk and McDaniel, “Goals of semantic digital libraries” Semantic Digital Libraries(Berlin: Springer, 2009)

  15. Introducing Merritt • What is Merritt? • Who can use Merritt? • What content can go into Merritt? • How can Merritt be used? • Demonstration • Next steps • Summary • Discussion

  16. Demonstration http://merritt.cdlib.org/

  17. Introducing Merritt • What is Merritt? • Who can use Merritt? • What content can go into Merritt? • How can Merritt be used? • Demonstration • Next steps • Summary • Discussion

  18. Next steps UC3 is working with campus partners to determine ongoing development and collection priorities New content acquisition

  19. Introducing Merritt • What is Merritt? • Who can use Merritt? • What content can go into Merritt? • How can Merritt be used? • Demonstration • Next steps • Summary • Discussion

  20. Summary An innovative and cost-effective curation repository service A more fully-functioned and sustainable replacement for the DPR Lets campus curators take control over their content Comprehensive support for digital content submission, management, discovery/access, and preservation Content agnostic, simple interfaces and workflows

  21. Summary Available as a centrally-hosted UC3 service or as a locally-deployable system A repository for the 21st century • “Emerging technologies promise the potential to create transparent access to and delivery of information across formats and collections and to improve the ability of libraries to … build the most effective collections” CDC, The University of California Library Collection: Content for the 21st Century and Beyond August 2009

  22. Introducing Merritt • What is Merritt? • Who can use Merritt? • What content can go into Merritt? • How can Merritt be used? • Demonstration • Next steps • Summary • Discussion

  23. Discussion Where does the name “Merritt” come from? • Lake Merritt is a local landmark close to the CDL offices in Oakland • Lake Merritt was the first official wildlife refuge in the US and is a National Historic Landmark

  24. Discussion What will happen to the DPR? • Merritt is replacing the DPR as a core UC3 service • All new submission streams should be directed to Merritt • All content currently in the DPR will be automatically migrated into Merritt Why are you doing this? • We believe that Merritt offers significant benefits in terms of efficiency, function, flexibility of use, and sustainability; giving you greater direct control over your content

  25. Discussion Will existing workflows continue to work? • Yes, there is a Merritt crosswalk for the METS-based feeder submission What are the minimal requirements for an acceptable digital object? • Merritt will accept any content in any form • However, since the level of preservation service is dependent on the characteristics of the content, we offer guidance on content creation • A per-object METS file is no longer necessary

  26. Discussion What does it cost? • Storage costs $1,090/TB/year; all other use is without charge What do I have to do to get started? • Contact Perry Willett, UC3 services manager uc3@ucop.edu

  27. For more information UC Curation Center http://www.cdlib.org/uc3 uc3@ucop.edu Merritt repository http://merritt.cdlib.org/ UC3 Stephen Abrams David Loy Patricia Cruse Isaac Rabinovitch Scott Fisher Mark Reyes Erik Hetzner Tracy Seneca Greg Janée Joan Starr John Kunze Marisa Strong Margaret Low Perry Willett

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