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UC Merced Library to Celebrate Opening of New Data Hub

Wed, August 27, 2025 9:00 AM

The UC Merced Library will officially open its new Library Data Hub on Thursday, September 11, with a celebration from 3:00 to 4:30 pm on the third floor West of the Kolligian Library.

The hub brings together two dedicated lab spaces designed to strengthen support for data-driven research and teaching. The Data Lab (KL 336) will provide resources for foundational coding education, while the GIS Center (KL 330) will focus on geospatial research and mapping. Together, the facilities will offer students, faculty, and researchers new opportunities to expand their skills and explore complex questions through data.

Opening remarks and a welcome are scheduled for 3:30 p.m., followed by time for visitors to tour the new spaces, connect with colleagues, and learn more about the services and support available. Light refreshments will be provided.

All are welcome to drop by to explore the new hub. RSVPs to this grand opening are appreciated. 

Grand Opening 3rd floor West, Lolligian Library. GIS Center KL 300 and Data Lab KL 336.

Introduction to Python

Wed, January 29, 2025 11:30 AM
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Software Carpentry Logo. Text: Introduction to Python: A Three-Day Workshop Series.

This three-day workshop series teaches the fundamentals of research computing in Python. It will introduce graduate students and faculty to programming concepts and tools they can apply to their own research workflows. We will cover Python language fundamentals, data management, and program design.

Participants should install Python on their computer prior to the first workshop. You can install Python for your operating system by following these installation instructions. Your registration for this event covers all three workshop days.  Registration for this workshop series is required. 

Workshop Dates & Times:

9:30am - 12:30pm, Friday, January 31, 2025

9:30am - 12:30pm, Friday, February 7, 2025

9:30am - 12:30pm, Friday, February 14, 2025 

Workshop Location:

Kolligian Library Building, KL 260 

UC Love Data Week 2024

Tue, February 13, 2024 2:00 PM
Author: 
Derek Devnich

HOW DO YOU ❤ YOUR DATA?

A heart shaped graphic consisting of nodes on a circuit network in yellow and blue with the UC campus initials included in the graphic

February 12 - 16, 2024

UC Love Data Week is a week-long offering of presentations and workshops focused on data access, management, security, sharing, and preservation. Whether you're working on qualitative or quantitative data, we've got events for you! All members of the University of California community are welcome to attend.

Explore this year's presentations and workshops by using the calendar or workshop info views below. Follow this link for full descriptions and to register. To register for a specific workshop, click on the workshop title. Make sure to register with your UC-campus email.

White Paper from LASC Now Available

Thu, December 21, 2023 2:50 PM

The UC Merced Library White Paper (June 2023) was written in response to a charge from former Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Gregg Camfield to the UC Merced Academic Senate Committee on Library and Scholarly Communication (LASC) to articulate the Library’s contributions to UC Merced’s mission of research, teaching, and service.

The White Paper highlights selected Library activities and aligns them with the campus’ Strategic Planning Goals; it does not showcase all Library services and contributions. Included recommendations suggest how an investment in the UC Merced Library can support the ongoing advancement of the university’s mission. The body of the White Paper follows an Executive Summary (pgs. 3-8) and Synopsis (9).

image of library's 4th floor

New Dryad Platform

Fri, September 27, 2019 12:55 PM

This past May, in an effort to drive adoption by meeting researchers in their existing workflows and encourage further promotion of UC’s repositories by publishers, CDL announced its formal partnership between itself and Dryad, an international disciplinary repository for data curation. This partnership has now launched the new Dryad Platform focused on the features which best support the researching community’s ever-changing needs.  Some of these new features include:

Support of datasets as part of a journal submission or submitted independently

Uploading of data from cloud storage or lab servers

Updating or versioning of data at any time in the process

Updating and display of standardized data usage and citation statistics for each published dataset

The new Dryad platform is just the beginning for the partnership to make data publishing both robust and seamless. Integrations with other publishing platforms, as well as data analysis and computing spaces are currently in process.

To find out more, visit CDLINFO.

Research Data Management Workshop Series

Fri, August 30, 2019 8:30 AM

Research Data Management: From Plan to Publication 

Presenter: Emily Lin, Head-Digital Curation and Scholarship, UC Merced Library

  • Wednesday September 18, 2019
  • Location: KL 397
  • 9:00 - 10:20am

RSVP by September 6th. 

 

Metadata 101

Presenter: Emily Lin, Head-Digtial Curation and Scholarship, UC Merced Library

  • Wednesday October 2, 2019
  • Location: KL 371
  • 2:00 - 2:50pm

RSVP by September 20th. 

 

Keeping Data Safe & Secure 

Presenter: Matthias Bussonier, Core Developer, IPython/Jupyter and Senior Lead Developer, IPython

  • Wednesday October 9, 2019
  • Location: KL 397
  • 2:00 - 2:50pm

RSVP by September 27th. 

 

Choosing a License

Presenter: Elizabeth Salmon, Research Services Librarian, UC Merced Library

  • Wednesday October 16, 2019
  • Location: KL 397
  • 2:00 - 2:50pm

RSVP by October 4th. 

 

Research Data Management: From Plan to Publication

Presenter: Derek Devnich, Data Curation Services Coordinator, UC Merced Library

  • Wednesday October 30, 2019
  • Location: KL 397
  • 9:00 - 10:20am

RSVP by October 18th. 

 

Data Sharing and Research Transparency in Qualitative Research

Presenter: Sebastian Karcher, Associate Director of the Qualitative Data Repository, Syracuse University

  • Tuesday November 12, 2019
  • Location: KL 371
  • 12:00 - 1:20pm

RSVP by October 30th. 

 

Research Data Management: From Plan (DMPTool) to Publication (Dryad)

Presenters: Daniella Lowenberg, Product Manager for Dryad and Project Lead for Sloan Foundation 

                   Maria Praeztellis, Product Manager, California Digital Library

  • Tuesday November 19, 2019
  • Location: KL 397
  • 12:00 - 1:20pm

RSVP by November 4th. 

 

View our entire lineup of library workshops for Fall 2019 semester. 

 

Protocols.io Pilot

Fri, June 7, 2019 2:15 PM

The UC system has entered into a pilot for the use of protocols.io — an open access repository for research methods. Running for a three-year period from June 1, 2019 through May 31, 2022, the pilot removes all cost barriers, allowing UC researchers to test the uses of protocols.io for private collaboration and for use in classrooms.

By initiating this pilot, UC hopes to increase management and tracking of research methods on each campus, allowing for better reporting and more reproducible publications from researchers. Follow this link for more details about the pilot and protocols.io.

Library Hosts Successful Software Carpentry Workshop

Mon, April 1, 2019 1:40 PM
Author: 
Kathleen Coburn

The UC Merced Library organized a two-day Software Carpentry workshop during Spring Break that covered Unix, Git, and Python. The workshop was given by two excellent instructors, Kate Barron (Data Services Librarian at San Jose State University's Martin Luther King, Jr. Library) and Avishek Kumar (Research/Data Scientist at the University of Chicago's Center for Data Science and Public Policy).

The helpers, those who volunteer to attend Carpentry workshops to assist and answer students' questions, are equally valuable! We would like to thank Matthias Bussonier (Research Facilitator at UC Merced and co-developer of Project Jupyter), Sarvani Chadalapaka (High Performance Computing Administrator at UC Merced), Akshay Paropkari (graduate student in Quantitative and Systems Biology), and Jasper Toscani Field (another graduate student in Quantitative and Systems Biology). 

Thanks additionally to our dedicated library staff who handled catering, travel, and IT support, and finally, thanks to all of our attendees! We hope you enjoyed this Software Carpentry workshop.

For information about upcoming Carpentries workshops, check out our page. You can also sign up to be trained as an official Carpentries instructor or add your name to a list of potential helpers.

 

Video: Research Data Matters

Fri, May 13, 2016 12:00 AM

Why is research data management important and what is the impact of good data management practices? An introductory video released by the UC Libraries addresses these questions by incorporating the voices and testimonials of UC faculty.

The video is the first of a proposed series developed by the UC Libraries Data Curation Common Knowledge Group. It features UC Merced Vice Provost and Graduate Dean Marjorie Zatz and was produced by the UC Merced Communications video production team.

Viewership and feedback will be used to assess and inform future development of the series. Questions or feedback can be submitted directly to the project leads, Head, Digital Assets, Emily Lin (elin@ucmerced.edu) and UC Riverside Engineering Librarian, Kat Koziar (katherine.koziar@ucr.edu).

If you are a principal investigator preparing a grant proposal or developing your research project and would like help with data management planning, contact curation@ucmerced.edu. The Library would be happy to provide consultation for your needs.

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