UC3 Services In-Depth:

Data Curation for Practitioners 2012 Workshop

Deep dive

• Who is it for?

• Why use it?

• How much does it cost?

• What can it do?

• How do I use it?

• Next steps

• Q & A

Who is it for?

• Libraries/archives/museums• ORU/MRUs• Faculty/staff

• Centrally hosted by UC3/CDL

Mediated through campus libraries

Why use it?

• Curation repository– Supporting long-term preservation and access– Publish, share, preserve, discover, (re-)use

• “Model free”– There are no prescriptive requirements for content genre,

format, structure, or accompanying metadata

How much does it cost?

• UC affiliates pricing model and service agreement available soon

– Charged for storage fees only, at $390 per TB

– Pay as you go (1 year)

– Pay once, store for a long time (10 years)

• Services will be available to non-UC contributors

Sample pricing scenariosPay-as-you-go (1 year)

< 100 GB = $39

< 500 GB = $195

< 1 TB = $390

< 5 TB = $1,950

Paid-up (10 years)< 100 GB = $290

< 500 GB = $1,450

< 1 TB = $2,900

< 5 TB = $14,500

Modes of use: dark archive

Modes of use: bright archive

"The Vault is Open" by Patrick Gage Kelley, 10/18/2008Available on Flickrhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/patrickgage/2961930014/

Modes of use: bright archive

• Provide preservation and end user access

• Option to designate collection as open to the public or keep restricted to designated users

• Can provide public access to entire object in the collection (metadata + associated files)

• Or can provide public access to view metadata while restricting associated files

There’s an option for “guest” login

Select a collection to browse

Choosing one of the collections brings you to the list of objects

• View key citation metadata, • Download individual versions• ... or download all versions

The permanent linkis listed on the object landing page for each object

Click-through agreements

• Possible to add a usage agreement at the collection level

• Every time someone tries to download an object from the collection, they would first be presented with the terms of use

• Copies sent to CDL, content owner/depositor, and end user

For collections using DUAs, clicking on the “Download object” button or using the download URL leads to…

Terms of use

Personal information

Once the required fieldsare filled in, click the Accept button…

And the download begins

Modes of use: preservation “back end”

eScholarship

UCSF Clinical & Translational Science Institute:

XTF + Merritt (DataShare)

UCB Information Services and Technology:

Alfresco + Merritt (Research Hub)

UCLA Library: Islandora + Merritt

Modes of use: distributed data grids

• DataONE “Enable new science and knowledge creation through universal access to data about life on earth and the environment that sustains it”

How do I use it?

• Contact us for an account: uc3@ucop.edu

• Agree to service terms and fee schedule (available soon)

• We’ll work with you to establish and configure collection(s), for depositing content:– Level of access (dark vs. bright archive)

– User accounts and permissions to deposit and access the collection

Depositing content

• User interface• METS feeder• API

manual deposits

automated deposits (METS)

automated deposits

Depositing content

• User interface• METS feeder• API

manual deposits

automated deposits (METS)

automated deposits

See User’s Guide and online help for more information http://merritt.cdlib.org/

Deposit content through the UI• The submission package is always a single file:

– For a single object:

• A single file (image, PDF, A/V, etc.). Supply metadata through the UI• A container (zip, gzip, tar.gz), comprising file(s) for a single object.

Supply metadata through the UI, or include as a metadata file• A manifest, enumerating file(s) for a single object. Supply metadata

through the UI, or reference metadata file in the manifest

– For multiple objects:

• A manifest, enumerating files and metadata records for multiple objects

• A manifest, enumerating multiple containers• A manifest, enumerating multiple manifests

Upload a file, container, or manifest

Optionally supply metadata for the file or container

Using manifests

• A “packing slip” for an object, providing URLs for all object’s file components

An Excel macro is available for automagically generating manifests. See User’s Guide and online help for more information http://merritt.cdlib.org/

Providing metadata for objects

• Optional; if you don’t supply it, we’ll derive it• How to supply metadata:– Provide it through the UI– Include it as part of the manifest– Include it as a metadata file:

• Simple Dublin Core record: mrt-dc.xml• ERC record: mrt-erc.txt

Deposit notification

• You will receive two email separate notifications– Initial notification that we have received your submission,

and that it is queued for subsequent processing

– Final notification that we have fully processed your submission

Future developments

• Improved download for large objects

• Moving some functionality to object level—public option, DUAs

• Updating objects with just the changed components

• Enhanced UI to open access content in Merritt (exploring use of XTF and Solr)

• Drag-and-drop submission similar to Flickr, Dropbox

For more informationMerritt repository:http://merritt.cdlib.org/

Merritt overview and resources:http://www.cdlib.org/services/uc3/merritt/https://confluence.ucop.edu/display/Curation/

• Development plans• Webinars• Use cases and deployment profiles• Cost modeling• TRAC self-audit• And more...

Contact usuc3@cdlib.org

Service ManagersPerry Willett510/987-0078Perry.Willett@ucop.edu

Adrian Turner714/289-1822Adrian.Turner@ucop.edu