Data & Digital Scholarship

News: Data & digital scholarship

Data & Digital Scholarship's expertise in data discovery, data creation, data management and analytical tools supports the generation and dissemination of new knowledge at UC Davis.

Dryad–a data repository for UC Davis researchers

Less than two years ago I wrote a blog post about UC Davis researchers receiving access to a campus instance of the Dash data repository. We added this service to support open data sharing to advance research and to help meet funder and publisher data sharing requirements. So why ...

September 26, 2019 • Vessela Ensberg

Getty Foundation Awards UC Davis DataLab $274,500 to Advance Groundbreaking Image Recognition Technology

The DataLab at the UC Davis Library, led by executive director Carl Stahmer, has been awarded a two-year, $274,500 grant by the Getty Foundation to tackle one of the thorniest problems in image recognition: building a tool to search for and identify images that are similar — though not ...

September 11, 2019 • Jessica Nusbaum

Library Spotlight: Carl G. Stahmer

Carl G. Stahmer, PhD is the Director of Digital Scholarship at the UC Davis Library. He oversees a variety of digital initiatives on campus, and has worked in the digital humanities since the mid 1990s. Stahmer’s work has been funded by various organizations and institutions, including the Institute of Museum ...

December 13, 2018 • Roberto C. Delgadillo

Time-lapse Video Shows Smoke Plumes from Wildfires

Using satellite imagery, the UC Davis Library collaborated with the UC Davis Center for Spatial Technologies and Remote Sensing (CSTARS) to create the four-day time-lapse video below. The video, also featured on the UC Davis Science & Climate blog, shows the extent of the smoke from the Camp Fire ...

November 16, 2018 • Jillian Kido

Student Maps WWII Stories

UC Davis student Arthur Koehl (Computer Science, History and Economics ’17) created a website for his senior project that maps the stories of soldiers who fought in World War II. The library’s digital scholarship program helps faculty and students like Koehl learn how to use digital technology and data analysis ...

April 10, 2018 • Jillian Kido

Dash–a data repository for UC Davis reseachers

To facilitate open data sharing, promote access to research and support UC researchers in meeting funders’ and publishers’ requirements for data sharing, the UC Davis Library now offers access to the award-winning service Dash. Dash is built and maintained by California Digital Library for the UC system. ...

November 9, 2017 • Vessela Ensberg