Repository details

Merritt

Name of repository
Merritt
Additional name(s)
  • UC3Merritt
Repository URL
https://merritt.cdlib.org/
Subject(s)
Description
Merritt is a curation repository for the preservation of and access to the digital research data of the ten campus University of California system and external project collaborators. Merritt is supported by the University of California Curation Center (UC3) at the California Digital Library (CDL). While Merritt itself is content agnostic, accepting digital content regardless of domain, format, or structure, it is being used for management of research data, and it forms the basis for a number of domain-specific repositories, such as the ONEShare repository for earth and environmental science and the DataShare repository for life sciences. Merritt provides persistent identifiers, storage replication, fixity audit, complete version history, REST API, a comprehensive metadata catalog for discovery, ATOM-based syndication, and curatorially-defined collections, access control rules, and data use agreements (DUAs). Merritt content upload and download may each be curatorially-designated as public or restricted. Merritt DOIs are provided by UC3's EZID service, which is integrated with DataCite. All DOIs and associated metadata are automatically registered with DataCite and are harvested by Ex Libris PRIMO and Thomson Reuters Data Citation Index (DCI) for high-level discovery. Merritt is also a member node in the DataONE network; curatorially-designated data submitted to Merritt are automatically registered with DataONE for additional replication and federated discovery through the ONEMercury search/browse interface.
Contact
Content type(s)
Certificates and Standards
Keyword(s)
Persistent identifier(s) of the repository
  • FAIRsharing_doi:10.25504/FAIRsharing.pkm8j3
  • RRID:SCR_000642
  • RRID:nlx_152126
Repository size
2.7 million resources; 41.8 million files; 93.2 TB
Repository type(s)
  • institutional
Mission statement for designated community
https://cdlib.org/about/mission-vision-and-values/
Research data repository language(s)
  • English
Data and/or service provider
  • data provider
  • service provider
Institution name
California Digital Library
Additional name(s)
  • CDL
Identifier(s)
  • RRID:SCR_006481
  • RRID:nlx_156041
  • ROR:03yrm5c26
Contact(s)
  • cdl@www.cdlib.org
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
  • funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Start date of responsibility
2006
Institution name
University of California Curation Center
Additional name(s)
  • UC3
Contact(s)
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
  • technical
Type of institution
non-profit
Start date of responsibility
2006

Policies (3)

Policy Name
CoreTrustSeal Assessment information
Policy Name
CDL Terms of Use
Policy Name
Policies and Guidelines

Database access

Type of access to research data repository
open

Data access (1)

Type of access to data
restricted
Data access restriction type(s)
  • registration

Data licenses (3)

DataLicense
other
DataLicense
CC
DataLicense
CC0

Data upload (1)

Type of data upload
restricted
Data upload restriction type(s)
  • other
Persistent identifier system(s)
  • ARK
  • DOI
Name of the repository software
  • MySQL
Versioning
yes
Data citation guideline
https://www.coretrustseal.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/UC3-Merritt.pdf
Author identifier system(s)
  • ORCID
Enhanced Publication
unknown
Quality management
yes

Metadata standards (1)

Metadata standard name
Dublin Core
Metadata standard scheme
DCC

Remarks

Remarks
Merritt is covered by Thomson Reuters Data Citation Index. Merritt is available to the UC community. Preservation of digital objects for UC institutions. Image Credits: The images on the Merritt home page are drawn from deposits in the California Digital Library's preservation repository, and are publicly accessible from Calisphere. Merritt is a member node in the DataONE network.
Entry date
2013-11-22
Last update
2023-09-14
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re3data.org: Merritt; editing status 2023-09-14; re3data.org - Registry of Research Data Repositories. http://doi.org/10.17616/R38D0D last accessed: 2024-04-26