As part of Project Bamboo, a team from UC Berkeley Information Services and Technology is working with the University of California Curation Center (UC3) and Alfresco Professional Services to make available exciting new data management services for arts and humanities scholars. When fully realized, scholars will be able to easily migrate research data from Work Spaces to the UC3 Merritt repository for long-term access and preservation. Data moved to the Merritt repository will be assigned a persistent identifier (DOI), which can be used to cite data with confidence.

Scholars need to know that the underlying data supporting their publications will be around for the long term. With new tools and standards for data publication, their data can be reused and verified, its impact measured, and their contributions recognized and rewarded. Many funding agencies are now mandating, where sensible, broad public dissemination of the products of research. This solution should go a long way towards meeting the needs of the academic community, funders and other stakeholders.

We are currently working towards a technical proof of concept, with the objective of being able to move content (data and metadata) from the Alfresco-based Bamboo Work Space to the UC3 Merritt repository. We expect to have this technical proof of concept ready by late October 2011. We will then work towards a more functional beta release (December 2011), which we expect to pilot during the spring 2012 semester. Our code and overall approach will serve as a template for connecting to other web-based scholarly services.

To read further on Alfresco-based Bamboo work please visit:
ECM Work Spaces REST Integration Page: https://wiki.projectbamboo.org/x/diB4AQ
Contact: Noah Wittman (wittman<at>berkeley<dot>edu)