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Overview
Merritt is the digital preservation repository managed by the University of California Curation Center (UC3) at the California Digital Library (CDL). Merritt is designed as a set of micro-services, in which a comprehensive body of preservation functions are implemented by a set of small, independent, but highly interoperable services. Merritt is available to UC libraries, departments, laboratories and other UC organizations.
Merritt provides robust preservation for files and digital collections through managing unique identifiers (in partnership with EZID), replication in multiple data centers, and continuous audits of files. Merritt supports multiple descriptive metadata formats.
Merritt serves as both a preservation and access repository for eScholarship (the open access institutional repository and publishing platform for UC) and Dryad (data publication service at UC). Merritt is also integrated with the UC Digital Assets Management (UC DAMS) service hosted by CDL.
For more on Merritt microservices, see these presentations:
- Abrams, Stephen. (2011) "A micro-services-based approach for curation and preservation solutions." Global Oracle PASIG User Group Meeting, Redwood Shores, May 10-12, 2011.
- Abrams, Stephen, et al. (2010) "Merritt: A Micro-Services-based Curation Repository"
- "UC3, Merritt and Long-Term Preservation."