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Perry Willett edited this page Sep 26, 2017 · 33 revisions

Welcome to the Merritt documentation wiki. This wiki is a place for public documentation about Merritt.

Merritt is the digital preservation repository for the University of California, available to libraries, academic departments, laboratories and other organizational units within UC. It is designed using the principles of microservices, and can provide restricted access (as a "dark archive") and open public access to its contents. Merritt provides multiple methods for deposit and retrieval, via the UI and API. It supports multiple metadata formats, and provides preservation functions and reporting during submission, and while content resides in the repository. Merritt's preservation features include unique identifiers (in partnership with EZID), replication across multiple data centers and continuous audits.

This wiki will include:

  • overviews of features, funcationality and architecture
  • technical documentation
  • CoreTrustSeal (formerly Data Seal of Approval) documentation
  • presentations
  • links to code repositories
  • history / credits
  • link to UC3 blog posts with category of Merritt

Documentation Overview