Dash*
*nĂŠe DataShare
an open source data curation
platform for repositories
Carly Strasser
California Digital Library
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Current climate:
Data management &
sharing mandates
Where to put the data?
ü  Long-term storage
ü  Preservation
ü  Provision for identifier & stable URL
Website
Hard drive
Filing cabinet
Dropbox
NOT
•  Traditionally for OA papers; moving to data
•  Can hold all data associated with a paper
•  Tells a story
•  Reproducibility
Institutional repositories
Where to put the data?
Where to put the data?
•  Well known within disciplines
•  Some of data for a given paper
•  Data are discoverable
•  Good for reuse/meta-analysis
Disciplinary repositories
Institutional repositories
Where to put the data?
Disciplinary repositories
Dataset 2
Scripts Dataset 1
Pointer to
Dataset 2
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  Flickr	
  by	
  jackcheng	
  
But…
•  Not always self-service
•  Complicated workflows
•  Data?
Institutional repositories may play
an important role in data sharing.
Simplify data deposit for
UC researchers
under the hood
Free public access to research
products
Faceted
search &
browse
Citation
License info
DataCite metadata for
now; plans for more
Branding
– Logo
– URL
Custom content
– Contact information
– About
–  FAQ
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Challenge: Make it look like
a campus-specific service
dash.berkeley.edu
github.com/cdluc3/dash/wiki
Down the road
•  Open source community
•  Integrate with standard protocols
•  Establish instances outside of UC
Website
Email
Twitter
Slides
carlystrasser.net
carlystrasser@gmail.com
@carlystrasser
slideshare.net/carlystrasser
@UC3CDL
uc3@ucop.edu
cdlib.org/services/uc3

ESA Ignite talk on UC3 Dash platform for data sharing