Category: EZID
EZID Service Update: January 2018
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Identifier Systems Architect John Kunze participated in two panel discussions at the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Winter Meeting. John spoke on YAMZ, a crowd-sourced metadata dictionary at the GeoSemantics symposium. YAMZ offers a […]
Reports of EZID’s death are greatly exaggerated
In 1897, Mark Twain is said to have read his own obituary, and then remarked, “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.” And Mark Twain isn’t the only one to have this sorry experience, as Wikipedia’s List of premature […]
EZID Service Update: October 2017
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities EZID is changing its DOI service, and implementation is underway. More information is available here: https://ezid.cdlib.org/learn/doi_services_faq. If you have questions about your specific situation, please contact us. EZID Partners and Clients Our current EZID […]
EZID Service Update: September 2017
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities As announced in early August, EZID is changing its DOI service. If you did not read the announcement, you can find it here: http://cdlib.org/2017/08/04/ezid-doi-service-is-evolving/. Implementation began in September with these steps: We asked DOI-service […]
EZID Service Update: August 2017
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities EZID announced a major shift in its DOI service, scaling back its scope of business to encompass solely the University of California (UC). Non-UC clients will be gradually transitioned to an alternate DOI service […]
EZID DOI Service is Evolving
By Joan Starr, EZID Service Manager, California Digital Library; Michael Witt, Associate Professor of Library Science, Purdue University Libraries; and, Patricia Cruse, Executive Director, DataCite The California Digital Library (CDL) and Purdue University are adopting a new strategic direction for […]
EZID Service Update: May 2017
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities John Kunze, EZID System Architect, and Greg Janée, EZID Technical Lead, both attended the third annual CSV conference in Portland, May 2-3. “CSV” is short for “comma separated values,” and it is a common […]
EZID Service Update: April 2017
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Joan Starr, EZID’s Service Manager, attended DataCite’s annual Strategy Meeting and General Assembly where she gave a presentation on the Force11 Software Citation Principles. Software and data differ from one another in several key […]
EZID Service Update: March 2017
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Joan Starr, EZID’s Service Manager, participated in the first California Data Librarians Meeting, hosted by UC Santa Barbara. The format was “unconference” style, and Starr proposed a topic that was chosen: Frequently Asked Questions […]
EZID Service Update: February 2017
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Joan Starr, EZID’s Service Manager, offered a webinar this month to a group of US federal senior scientific and technical information (STI) managers called CENDI. The slides from the talk, “Identifiers and Citation,” are […]