Category Archives: News and Events

Data Conservancy and Data Rescue Boulder Pilot

The Data Conservancy (DC) has recently collaborated with Data Rescue Boulder to complete a data rescue pilot. Through our conversations, both groups realized that there is an important opportunity to develop a model for data rescue collection development.   Data …

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First milestone release for Fedora API-X!

We are excited to announce the first milestone release of Fedora API-X Architecture. The development of Fedora API-X has been a community based effort, led by members of our team Aaron Birkland and Elliot Metsger and funded by Institute of Museums …

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Presentation on Fedora API Extension architecture at DLF 2016 Forum

Aaron Birkland is giving a presentation on Fedora API Extension architecture (API-X) at the 2016 DLF Forum on Monday November 7, 1:30-2.25 pm.   Fedora API-X, one of our major software components, is a community driven effort aimed at building an …

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Poster presentation on Linked Data and SHARE at 2016 Charleston Conference

Sayeed will be presenting our recent work with SHARE data using RMap services at the Charleston Conference on November 3rd from 6pm to 6.45pm. Come check out our poster and other materials at the booth!   Our poster can be downloaded below: …

Data Conservancy Update!

  The Data Conservancy team has been busy refactoring our core infrastructure and extending our software offerings. Based on lessons learned from a robust R&D program and community-adopted software development, we strive to develop solutions that address not only our preservation needs, but …

Capturing a world

by Natasha Vizcarra, NSIDC An Inuit hunter stands at the edge of the shorefast ice at Barrow, Alaska. Credit: M. Druckenmiller.   A hand-drawn map; an Elder’s account of an old hunting route; reports of new leads in the sea …

A new chapter for Data Conservancy

The recent beta release of the Data Conservancy software marks not only an evolution in the data curation capabilities of the software. It also marks a new chapter in the Data Conservancy community.   With this release, Data Conservancy comes …

Data Conservancy Software Beta Release Now Available

We are pleased to announce the beta release of the Data Conservancy Software (DCS). The version features archive services and enhanced metadata ingest capabilities, as well as an improved user interface.   “We have started the data preservation capabilities of …

DC, IEEE, Portico awarded grant to link publications with data

The Data Conservancy, in partnership with IEEE and Portico, have been awarded a grant to link publications with data.  The $602,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation will support the creation of a service to do just that.  This …

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DC at AGU 2013 Fall Meeting

Data Conservancy will be well represented at the 2013 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting in San Francisco. If you are at AGU, we hope you will attend the presentations, workshops and poster sessions in which we will be participating. …