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EZID Service Update: December 2014

January 9, 2015 Author: Joan StarrCategories: Tags:

 

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  • EZID implemented a standard Open Archives Initiative, Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) interface, allowing external harvesting of the information we store for most of our identifiers. The full story is at CDLINFO News: http://cdlib.org/2014/12/15/ezid-oai-pmh/.OAI-PMH represents greater opportunities for clients’ content to be seen. Every time someone clicks on an EZID ARK or DOI, the target URL gets a “hit.” For information aggregators, the new interface opens up a treasure trove of new information to explore. Technical information about the interface is available here.
  • The EZID Team conducted a mid-year progress review and updated our 2014-15 Roadmap with information about where we are on implementing the feature enhancements and service improvements we listed:
    https://confluence.ucop.edu/display/DataCite/EZID+Roadmap+2014-15.

EZID Partners and Clients

Our current EZID clients include academic institutions, government agencies, non-profit organizations and commercial entities. For the full list, see http://ezid.cdlib.org/home/client_list.

EZID Service Description

EZID (easy-eye-dee) is a production service that gives researchers the ability to create and manage long-term identifiers so that they can to track usage, get credit for their work, share their data, and have the data reused for additional research. As a result, EZID identifiers also make it possible to increase citations, to build on previous work, to conduct new research, and avoid duplicating previous efforts.

EZID Service Manager

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EZID Training Materials, Guides, FAQs and Webinars

More information about EZID is available by contacting us. See also EZID outreach and webinars: http://ezid.cdlib.org/home/outreach.

Service Monitoring and Availability

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