• For the 3rd month in a row, EZID Clients captured top honors when DataCite’s Managing Director Jan Brase blogged about the “most popular datasets” using DataCite Statistics. March numbers showed that 9 of the 10 most popular were EZID clients. Congratulations! http://bit.ly/ZlFYNy
• On April 15th DataCite registration services were down for approximately 16 hours, starting at 8:25 AM, Pacific Time. EZID was not down during this time, but because it relies on DataCite to implement its DOI-related operations, DOI registrations through EZID were not possible during this window. DOI resolutions are handled by an entirely different system and were never affected. ARK services were not affected either. The cause of this outage has not yet been completely explained.
• In response, we have developed tools to detect, recover from, and otherwise manage both client mistakes and DataCite and Handle System failures. This helps ensure more consistent system performance for all EZID clients.

EZID Partners and Clients
Our current EZID clients include academic institutions, government agencies, non-profit organizations and commercial entities.

New this month:

• The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard http://www.broadinstitute.org
• The California Institute of Technology Library (on behalf of the CalTech campus) http://library.caltech.edu/

Complete list:

• UC Berkeley Library (on behalf of the UC Berkeley campus)
• UC Irvine Libraries (on behalf of the UC Irvine campus)
• UC Los Angeles Library (on behalf of the UC LA campus)
• UC Merced Library (on behalf of the UC Merced campus)
• UC Riverside (on behalf of the UC Riverside campus)
• UC San Diego Library (on behalf of the UC San Diego campus)
• UC San Francisco Library (on behalf of the UC San Francisco campus)
• UC Santa Cruz Library (on behalf of the UC Santa Cruz campus)
• UC Santa Barbara Library (on behalf of the UC Santa Barbara campus)
• American Astronomical Society http://www.aas.org
• Bay Area Environmental Research Institute http://baeri.org/
• Benchfly http://www.benchfly.com
• The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard http://www.broadinstitute.org
• The California Institute of Technology Library (on behalf of the CalTech campus) http://library.caltech.edu/
• Centre national de documentation pédagogique http://www.cndp.fr/
• Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research http://ciser.cornell.edu/
• Cornell University Library http://www.library.cornell.edu/
• Data Planet http://www.conquestsystems.com
• The Digital Archaeological Record (tDAR) http://www.tdar.org
• Digital-Science http://www.digital-science.com
• Dryad Data Repository http://datadryad.org
• Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)’s Commons http://commons.esipfed.org/
• Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center http://www.fhcrc.org
• Harte Research Institute at Texas A&M, Corpus Christi http://www.harteresearchinstitute.org/
• Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (on behalf of the JHU Data Management Services and Data Archive) http://dmp.data.jhu.edu
• LabArchives http://www.labarchives.com/
• Long Term Ecological Research Network (LTER) Office
• National Atmospheric and Space Administration (NASA)’s Goddard Space Flight Center http://earthdata.nasa.gov/
• The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) http://ncar.ucar.edu
• The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) http://www.noaa.gov/
• The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) http://nsidc.org/
• Oregon Health Sciences University Library (on behalf of the OHSU campus) http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/education/library/
• Oregon State University Libraries (on behalf of the OSU campus) http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/
• PeerJ Inc. http://peerj.com
• Qualitative Data Repository (CQRM) http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/moynihan/cqrm/About_CQRM/
• Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) Program http://www.rvdata.us/
• Rutgers University Libraries http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/
• UNAVCO http://www.unavco.org/
• Université Claude Bernard Lyon Library http://www.univ-lyon1.fr/
• University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries (on behalf of the UMass Amherst campus)
• University of Oregon Libraries (on behalf of the UO campus) http://libweb.uoregon.edu/
• University of Tennessee Library (on behalf of the UTK campus) http://lib.utk.edu/
• University of Utah Library (on behalf of the entire University of Utah campus)
  http://www.lib.utah.edu/
• University of Washington Libraries http://www.lib.washington.edu/
• USGS/Earth Sciences Data Clearinghouse (formerly National Biological Info. Infrastructure)
  http://www.nbii.gov/portal/server.pt
• Virginia Tech University Libraries http://www.lib.vt.edu/
• Washington State University Libraries (on behalf of the WSU campus) http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/

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
Joan Starr joan.starr@ucop.edu or uc3@ucop.edu.

EZID Training Materials, Guides, FAQs and Webinars
More information about EZID is available by sending an inquiry to uc3@ucop.edu. See also EZID outreach and webinars: http://n2t.net/ezid/home/outreach.

Service Monitoring and Availability
Since June 25, 2010, EZID has had an uptime performance of 99.9%. Check the CDL system status page at http://www.cdlib.org/contact/system.html.

Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities

• For the 2nd month in a row, EZID Clients captured top honors when DataCite’s Managing Director Jan Brase blogged about the “most popular datasets” using DataCite Statistics. February numbers showed that 8 of the 10 most popular were EZID clients. Congratulations! http://bit.ly/WJuAtS
• Along with Robert Kahn and Jan Brase, EZID lead architect John Kunze was invited to present his views on dataset identifiers in Gothenburg, Sweden, at the launch of the Research Data Alliance, an organisation that aims to accelerate and facilitate research data sharing and exchange. As a result, EZID’s scheme-agnostic N2T resolver is being considered as a candidate system for worldwide persistent identifier resolution of scientific data.

EZID Partners and Clients
Our current EZID clients include academic institutions, government agencies, non-profit organizations and commercial entities.

New this month:

• Cornell University Library http://www.library.cornell.edu/

Complete list:

• UC Berkeley Library (on behalf of the UC Berkeley campus)
• UC Irvine Libraries (on behalf of the UC Irvine campus)
• UC Los Angeles Library (on behalf of the UC LA campus)
• UC Merced Library (on behalf of the UC Merced campus)
• UC Riverside (on behalf of the UC Riverside campus)
• UC San Diego Library (on behalf of the UC San Diego campus)
• UC San Francisco Library (on behalf of the UC San Francisco campus)
• UC Santa Cruz Library (on behalf of the UC Santa Cruz campus)
• UC Santa Barbara Library (on behalf of the UC Santa Barbara campus)
• American Astronomical Society http://www.aas.org
• Bay Area Environmental Research Institute http://baeri.org/
• Benchfly http://www.benchfly.com
• Centre national de documentation pédagogique http://www.cndp.fr/
• Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research http://ciser.cornell.edu/
• Cornell University Library http://www.library.cornell.edu/
• Data Planet http://www.conquestsystems.com
• The Digital Archaeological Record (tDAR) http://www.tdar.org
• Digital-Science http://www.digital-science.com
• Dryad Data Repository http://datadryad.org
• Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)’s Commons http://commons.esipfed.org/
• Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center http://www.fhcrc.org
• Harte Research Institute at Texas A&M, Corpus Christi http://www.harteresearchinstitute.org/
• Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (on behalf of the JHU Data Management Services and Data Archive) http://dmp.data.jhu.edu
• LabArchives http://www.labarchives.com/
• Long Term Ecological Research Network (LTER) Office
• National Atmospheric and Space Administration (NASA)’s Goddard Space Flight Center http://earthdata.nasa.gov/
• The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) http://ncar.ucar.edu
• The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) http://www.noaa.gov/
• The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) http://nsidc.org/
• Oregon Health Sciences University Library (on behalf of the OHSU campus) http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/education/library/
• Oregon State University Libraries (on behalf of the OSU campus) http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/
• PeerJ Inc. http://peerj.com
• Qualitative Data Repository (CQRM) http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/moynihan/cqrm/About_CQRM/
• Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) Program http://www.rvdata.us/
• Rutgers University Libraries http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/
• UNAVCO http://www.unavco.org/
• Université Claude Bernard Lyon Library http://www.univ-lyon1.fr/
• University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries (on behalf of the UMass Amherst campus)
• University of Oregon Libraries (on behalf of the UO campus) http://libweb.uoregon.edu/
• University of Tennessee Library (on behalf of the UTK campus) http://lib.utk.edu/
• University of Utah Library (on behalf of the entire University of Utah campus)
  http://www.lib.utah.edu/
• University of Washington Libraries http://www.lib.washington.edu/
• USGS/Earth Sciences Data Clearinghouse (formerly National Biological Info. Infrastructure)
  http://www.nbii.gov/portal/server.pt
• Virginia Tech University Libraries http://www.lib.vt.edu/
• Washington State University Libraries (on behalf of the WSU campus) http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/

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
Joan Starr joan.starr@ucop.edu or uc3@ucop.edu.

EZID Training Materials, Guides, FAQs and Webinars
More information about EZID is available by sending an inquiry to uc3@ucop.edu. See also EZID outreach and webinars: http://n2t.net/ezid/home/outreach.

Service Monitoring and Availability
Since June 25, 2010, EZID has had an uptime performance of 99.9%. Check the CDL system status page at http://www.cdlib.org/contact/system.html.

Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities

• DataCite’s Managing Director Jan Brase blogged this month about the “11 most popular datasets” using DataCite Statistics. EZID Clients were 9 out of the 11. Congratulations! http://bit.ly/YGEufT
• EZID currently holds approximately a half million identifiers. Based on conversations with several clients that require much larger numbers of identifiers (in the multiple millions), the EZID development team has been scaling up EZID’s infrastructure and adding new functionality. These features will allow the upload and download of large batches of identifiers.
• The development team has also been improving the efficiency of the user account setup process and refining our data center naming practices to improve clients’ ability to track identifier usage.

EZID Partners and Clients
Our current EZID clients include academic institutions, government agencies, non-profit organizations and a commercial entity. Bolded entries are new additions since our last update.

• UC Berkeley Library (on behalf of the UC Berkeley campus)
• UC Irvine Libraries (on behalf of the UC Irvine campus)
• UC Los Angeles Library (on behalf of the UC LA campus)
• UC Merced Library (on behalf of the UC Merced campus)
• UC Riverside (on behalf of the UC Riverside campus)
• UC San Diego Library (on behalf of the UC San Diego campus)
• UC San Francisco Library (on behalf of the UC San Francisco campus)
• UC Santa Cruz Library (on behalf of the UC Santa Cruz campus)
• UC Santa Barbara Library (on behalf of the UC Santa Barbara campus)
• American Astronomical Society http://www.aas.org
• Bay Area Environmental Research Institute http://baeri.org/
• Benchfly http://www.benchfly.com
• Centre national de documentation pédagogique http://www.cndp.fr/
• Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research http://ciser.cornell.edu/
• Data Planet http://www.conquestsystems.com
• The Digital Archaeological Record (tDAR) http://www.tdar.org
• Digital-Science http://www.digital-science.com
• Dryad Data Repository http://datadryad.org
• Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)’s Commons http://commons.esipfed.org/
• Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center http://www.fhcrc.org
• Harte Research Institute at Texas A&M, Corpus Christi http://www.harteresearchinstitute.org/
• Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (on behalf of the JHU Data Management Services and Data Archive) http://dmp.data.jhu.edu
• LabArchives http://www.labarchives.com/
• Long Term Ecological Research Network (LTER) Office
• National Atmospheric and Space Administration (NASA)’s Goddard Space Flight Center http://earthdata.nasa.gov/
• The National Center for Atmospheric Research http://ncar.ucar.edu
• The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) http://www.noaa.gov/
• The National Snow and Ice Data Center http://nsidc.org/
• Oregon Health Sciences University Library (on behalf of the OHSU campus) http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/education/library/
• Oregon State University Libraries (on behalf of the OSU campus) http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/
• PeerJ Inc. http://peerj.com
• Qualitative Data Repository, CQRM http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/moynihan/cqrm/About_CQRM/
• Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) Program http://www.rvdata.us/
• Rutgers University Libraries http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/
• UNAVCO http://www.unavco.org/
• Université Claude Bernard Lyon Library http://www.univ-lyon1.fr/
• University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries (on behalf of the UMass Amherst campus)
• University of Oregon Libraries (on behalf of the UO campus) http://libweb.uoregon.edu/
• University of Tennessee Library (on behalf of the UTK campus) http://lib.utk.edu/
• University of Utah Library (on behalf of the entire University of Utah campus)
  http://www.lib.utah.edu/
• University of Washington Libraries http://www.lib.washington.edu/
• USGS/Earth Sciences Data Clearinghouse (formerly National Biological Info. Infrastructure)
  http://www.nbii.gov/portal/server.pt
• Virginia Tech University Libraries http://www.lib.vt.edu/
• Washington State University Libraries (on behalf of the WSU campus) http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/

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
Joan Starr joan.starr@ucop.edu or uc3@ucop.edu.

EZID Training Materials, Guides, FAQs and Webinars
More information about EZID is available by sending an inquiry to uc3@ucop.edu. See also EZID outreach and webinars: http://n2t.net/ezid/home/outreach.

Service Monitoring and Availability
Since June 25, 2010, EZID has had an uptime performance of 99.9%. Check the CDL system status page at http://www.cdlib.org/contact/system.html.

• EZID’s Outreach Materials were updated with new content including a professionally designed flyer and an EZID poster for use at events and conferences. These join the EZID postcard on the EZID Outreach page. All these items are customizable with your contact information for local outreach activities.
• EZID published an updated Roadmap of Enhancements and Developments for 2013. You are invited to send questions and suggestions to uc3@ucop.edu.

EZID Partners and Clients
Our current EZID clients include academic institutions, government agencies, non-profit organizations and a commercial entity. Bolded entries are new additions since our last update.

• UC Berkeley Library (on behalf of the UC Berkeley campus)
• UC Irvine Libraries (on behalf of the UC Irvine campus)
• UC Los Angeles Library (on behalf of the UC LA campus)
• UC Merced Library (on behalf of the UC Merced campus)
• UC Riverside (on behalf of the UC Riverside campus)
• UC San Diego Library (on behalf of the UC San Diego campus)
• UC San Francisco Library (on behalf of the UC San Francisco campus)
• UC Santa Cruz Library (on behalf of the UC Santa Cruz campus)
• UC Santa Barbara Library (on behalf of the UC Santa Barbara campus)
• American Astronomical Society http://www.aas.org
• Bay Area Environmental Research Institute http://baeri.org/
• Centre national de documentation pédagogique http://www.cndp.fr/
• Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research http://ciser.cornell.edu/
• Data Planet http://www.conquestsystems.com
• The Digital Archaeological Record (tDAR) http://www.tdar.org
• Digital-Science http://www.digital-science.com
• Dryad Data Repository http://datadryad.org
• Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)’s Commons http://commons.esipfed.org/
• Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center http://www.fhcrc.org
• Harte Research Institute at Texas A&M, Corpus Christi http://www.harteresearchinstitute.org/
• Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (on behalf of the JHU Data Management Services and Data Archive) http://dmp.data.jhu.edu
• LabArchives http://www.labarchives.com/
• Long Term Ecological Research Network (LTER) Office
• National Atmospheric and Space Administration (NASA)’s Goddard Space Flight Center http://earthdata.nasa.gov/
• The National Center for Atmospheric Research http://ncar.ucar.edu
• The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) http://www.noaa.gov/
• The National Snow and Ice Data Center http://nsidc.org/
• Oregon Health Sciences University Library (on behalf of the OHSU campus) http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/education/library/
• Qualitative Data Repository, CQRM http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/moynihan/cqrm/About_CQRM/
• Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) Program http://www.rvdata.us/
• Rutgers University Libraries http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/
• UNAVCO http://www.unavco.org/
• Université Claude Bernard Lyon Library http://www.univ-lyon1.fr/
• University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries (on behalf of the UMass Amherst campus)
• University of Oregon Libraries (on behalf of the UO campus) http://libweb.uoregon.edu/
• University of Tennessee Library (on behalf of the UTK campus) http://lib.utk.edu/
• University of Utah Library (on behalf of the entire University of Utah campus)
  http://www.lib.utah.edu/
• University of Washington Libraries http://www.lib.washington.edu/
• USGS/Earth Sciences Data Clearinghouse (formerly National Biological Info. Infrastructure)
  http://www.nbii.gov/portal/server.pt
• Washington State University Libraries (on behalf of the WSU campus) http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/

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
Joan Starr joan.starr@ucop.edu or uc3@ucop.edu.

EZID Training Materials, Guides, FAQs and Webinars
More information about EZID is available by sending an inquiry to uc3@ucop.edu. See also EZID outreach and webinars: http://n2t.net/ezid/home/outreach.

Service Monitoring and Availability
Since June 25, 2010, EZID has had an uptime performance of 99.9%. Check the CDL system status page at http://www.cdlib.org/contact/system.html.

ORCID is governed by representatives from a broad cross-section of stakeholders from the global scholarly research community, the majority of whom are non-profits. 

Congratulations, Lisa.

Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities

• At DataCite’s General Assembly meeting this year in Cologne, EZID was honored with the 2012 Gold Award for assigning more than 250,000 DOIs (digital object identifiers) in one year. This reflects EZID’s growth in 2012, as well as the hard work of our clients and the team here at California Digital Library. More information is available here.
• On Sunday, December 2, we implemented metadata requirements for DOIs. These mirror the DataCite requirements that were to go into effect as of 12/31/12. During the month of November, clients had the opportunity to test the upcoming changes in the EZID staging environment and the EZID team provided support for large and/or complicated metadata changes.
• EZID Service Manager Joan Starr and other University of California Curation Center (UC3) colleagues held two 2-day workshops Nov 8-9 in Oakland and Nov 13-14 in Irvine. The workshops introduced library staff to basic data curation concepts, presented the challenges and solutions involved in delivering data curation services, provided information about UC3’s tools and services, and shared campus solutions and approaches to data curation services. 100 participants attended the workshops.

EZID Partners and Clients
Our current EZID clients include academic institutions, government agencies, non-profit organizations and a commercial entity. Bolded entries are new additions since our last update.

• UC Berkeley Library (on behalf of the UC Berkeley campus)
• UC Irvine Libraries (on behalf of the UC Irvine campus)
• UC Los Angeles Library (on behalf of the UC LA campus)
• UC Merced Library (on behalf of the UC Merced campus)
• UC Riverside (on behalf of the UC Riverside campus)
• UC San Diego Library (on behalf of the UC San Diego campus)
• UC San Francisco Library (on behalf of the UC San Francisco campus)
• UC Santa Cruz Library
• UC Santa Barbara Library (on behalf of the UC Santa Barbara campus)
• American Astronomical Society http://www.aas.org
• Centre national de documentation pédagogique http://www.cndp.fr/
• Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research http://ciser.cornell.edu/
• Data Planet http://www.conquestsystems.com
• The Digital Archaeological Record (tDAR) http://www.tdar.org
• Digital-Science http://www.digital-science.com
• Dryad Data Repository http://datadryad.org
• Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)’s Commons http://commons.esipfed.org/
• Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center http://www.fhcrc.org
• Harte Research Institute at Texas A&M, Corpus Christi http://www.harteresearchinstitute.org/
• Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (on behalf of the JHU Data Management Services and Data Archive) http://dmp.data.jhu.edu
• LabArchives http://www.labarchives.com/
• Long Term Ecological Research Network (LTER) Office
• National Atmospheric and Space Administration (NASA)’s Goddard Space Flight Center http://earthdata.nasa.gov/
• The National Center for Atmospheric Research http://ncar.ucar.edu
• The National Snow and Ice Data Center http://nsidc.org/
• Oregon Health Sciences University Library (on behalf of the OHSU campus) http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/education/library/
• Oregon State University Libraries (on behalf of the OSU campus) http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/
• PeerJ Inc. https://peerj.com/
• Qualitative Data Repository, CQRM http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/moynihan/cqrm/About_CQRM/
• Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) Program http://www.rvdata.us/
• Rutgers University Libraries http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/
• UNAVCO http://www.unavco.org/
• Université Claude Bernard Lyon Library http://www.univ-lyon1.fr/
• University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries (on behalf of the UMass Amherst campus)
• University of Oregon Libraries (on behalf of the UO campus) http://libweb.uoregon.edu/
• University of Utah Library (on behalf of the entire University of Utah campus)
  http://www.lib.utah.edu/
• University of Washington Libraries http://www.lib.washington.edu/
• USGS/Earth Sciences Data Clearinghouse (formerly National Biological Info. Infrastructure)
  http://www.nbii.gov/portal/server.pt
• Washington State University Libraries (on behalf of the WSU campus) http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/

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
Joan Starr joan.starr@ucop.edu or uc3@ucop.edu.

EZID Training Materials, Guides, FAQs and Webinars
More information about EZID is available by sending an inquiry to uc3@ucop.edu. See also EZID outreach and webinars: http://n2t.net/ezid/home/outreach.

Service Monitoring and Availability
Since June 25, 2010, EZID has had an uptime performance 99.9%. Check the EZID system status page at http://www.cdlib.org/contact/system.html.

Thanks go to all who contributed to this achievement: John Kunze, Greg Janée, Scott Fisher and Trisha Cruse, as well as our many clients.

For those interested in the topic of data citation, take note of DataCite’s Stats service.  Here you can examine the DOI-assignment activities of all the DataCite member organizations and follow the growth of this young organization. The statistics can be viewed all the way down to the prefix level, which means you can look at what is going on with organizations in Europe, Australia, Canada, and so forth.

Assigning long-term identifiers to data is a practice that is on the rise, and we are happy to be part of this trend.

September & October Activities

• We conducted an identifier clean-up exercise and were able to reduce substantially the incidence of broken and bad links. To all who assisted, we are thankful for your participation in the effort to insure identifier quality.
• We announced that DataCite would implement the policy of requiring metadata for DOIs as of 12/31/12. EZID will make our DOI registration code conform to the new procedures starting Sunday, December 2nd, 2012. Our API and UI changes will be available for testing in mid November.
• We tightened up the EZID system with several changes and improvements in the back end. One outcome is a substantial performance improvement in the ARK identifier minting process.
• The DOI registration service encountered three brief interruptions in October due to problems with DataCite’s service center; however the resolution service itself was never affected. DataCite is working with the service provider to address needed appropriate long term infrastructure upgrades.
• EZID Service Manager Joan Starr and a group of other CDL and University of California (UC) campus colleagues had a paper published on data management services, available here: http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/jeslib/vol1/iss2/7/.

EZID Partners and Clients
Our current EZID clients include academic institutions, government agencies, non-profit organizations and a commercial entity. Bolded entries are new additions since our last update.

• UC Berkeley Library (on behalf of the UC Berkeley campus)
• UC Irvine Libraries (on behalf of the UC Irvine campus)
• UC Los Angeles Library (on behalf of the UC LA campus)
• UC Merced Library (on behalf of the UC Merced campus)
• UC Riverside (on behalf of the UC Riverside campus)
• UC San Diego Library (on behalf of the UC San Diego campus)
• UC San Francisco Library (on behalf of the UC San Francisco campus)
• UC Santa Cruz Library
• UC Santa Barbara Library (on behalf of the UC Santa Barbara campus)
• American Astronomical Society http://www.aas.org
• Centre national de documentation pédagogique http://www.cndp.fr/
• Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research http://ciser.cornell.edu/
• Data Planet http://www.conquestsystems.com
• The Digital Archaeological Record (tDAR) http://www.tdar.org
• Digital-Science http://www.digital-science.com
• Dryad Data Repository http://datadryad.org
• Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)’s Commons http://commons.esipfed.org/
• Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center http://www.fhcrc.org
• Harte Research Institute at Texas A&M, Corpus Christi http://www.harteresearchinstitute.org/
• Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (on behalf of the JHU Data Management Services and Data Archive) http://dmp.data.jhu.edu
• LabArchives http://www.labarchives.com/
• Long Term Ecological Research Network (LTER) Office
• National Atmospheric and Space Administration (NASA)’s Goddard Space Flight Center http://earthdata.nasa.gov/
• The National Center for Atmospheric Research http://ncar.ucar.edu
• The National Snow and Ice Data Center http://nsidc.org/
• Oregon Health Sciences University Library (on behalf of the OHSU campus) http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/education/library/
• Qualitative Data Repository, CQRM http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/moynihan/cqrm/About_CQRM/
• Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) Program http://www.rvdata.us/
• Rutgers University Libraries http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/
• UNAVCO http://www.unavco.org/
• Université Claude Bernard Lyon Library http://www.univ-lyon1.fr/
• University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries (on behalf of the UMass Amherst campus)
• University of Oregon Libraries (on behalf of the UO campus) http://libweb.uoregon.edu/
• University of Utah Library (on behalf of the entire University of Utah campus)
  http://www.lib.utah.edu/
• University of Washington Libraries http://www.lib.washington.edu/
• USGS/Earth Sciences Data Clearinghouse (formerly National Biological Info. Infrastructure)
  http://www.nbii.gov/portal/server.pt
• Washington State University Libraries (on behalf of the WSU campus) http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/

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.

Additional EZID Information (training materials, guides, FAQ, etc.)
More information about EZID is available by sending an inquiry to uc3@ucop.edu. See also EZID outreach and webinars: http://n2t.net/ezid/home/outreach.

Service Statistics
Since June 25, 2010, EZID has had an uptime performance 99.9%. A service outage in August persisted for 30 minutes or less beginning at midnight, 8/25/12, PDT.

EZID Service Manager
Joan Starr joan.starr@ucop.edu or uc3@ucop.edu

August Activities

• Service Manager Joan Starr held a webinar on August 15th attended by more than 100 participants from organizations all over the country. The webinar was recorded, and the audio and slides are both available on the EZID outreach page, http://n2t.net/ezid/home/outreach.
• We finalized an exciting new partnership with EDINA, a UK national academic data center based at the University of Edinburgh, and JISC, one of the UK’s major information and digital technologies project sponsors. A key outcome is the establishment of a live replica for the ARK resolver in the UK. We are very pleased about this development, as it means an increase in service reliability and infrastructure robustness. For more information, see: http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2012/09/04/announcing-ezid-uk/.

EZID Partners and Clients
Our current EZID clients include academic institutions, government agencies, non-profit organizations and a commercial entity. Bolded entries are new additions since our last update.

• UC Berkeley Library (on behalf of the UC Berkeley campus)
• UC Los Angeles Library (on behalf of the UC LA campus)
• UC Merced Library (on behalf of the UC Merced campus)
• UC Riverside (on behalf of the UC Riverside campus)
• UC San Diego Library (on behalf of the UC San Diego campus)
• UC San Francisco Library (on behalf of the UC San Francisco campus)
• UC Santa Cruz Library
• UC Santa Barbara Library (on behalf of the UC Santa Barbara campus)
• American Astronomical Society http://www.aas.org
• Centre national de documentation pédagogique http://www.cndp.fr/
• Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research http://ciser.cornell.edu/
• Data Planet http://www.conquestsystems.com
• The Digital Archaeological Record (tDAR) http://www.tdar.org
• Dryad Data Repository http://datadryad.org
• Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)’s Commons http://commons.esipfed.org/
• Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center http://www.fhcrc.org
• Harte Research Institute at Texas A&M, Corpus Christi http://www.harteresearchinstitute.org/
• LabArchives http://www.labarchives.com/
• Long Term Ecological Research Network (LTER) Office
• National Atmospheric and Space Administration (NASA)’s Goddard Space Flight Center http://earthdata.nasa.gov/
• The National Center for Atmospheric Research http://ncar.ucar.edu
• The National Snow and Ice Data Center http://nsidc.org/
• Oregon Health Sciences University Library (on behalf of the OHSU campus)http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/education/library/
• Qualitative Data Repository, CQRM http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/moynihan/cqrm/About_CQRM/
• Université Claude Bernard Lyon Library http://www.univ-lyon1.fr/
• University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries (on behalf of the UMass Amherst campus)
• University of Oregon Libraries (on behalf of the UO campus) http://libweb.uoregon.edu/
• University of Utah Library (on behalf of the entire University of Utah campus)
  http://www.lib.utah.edu/
• University of Washington Libraries http://www.lib.washington.edu/
• USGS/Earth Sciences Data Clearinghouse (formerly National Biological Info. Infrastructure)
  http://www.nbii.gov/portal/server.pt
• Washington State University Libraries (on behalf of the WSU campus)

The UC Irvine Libraries are in the process of ordering 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.

Additional EZID Information (training materials, guides, FAQ, etc.)
More information about EZID is available by sending an inquiry to uc3@ucop.edu. See also EZID outreach and webinars: http://n2t.net/ezid/home/outreach.

Service Statistics
Since June 25, 2010, EZID has had an uptime performance 99.9%. A service outage in August persisted for 30 minutes or less beginning at midnight, 8/25/12, PDT.

EZID Service Manager
Joan Starr joan.starr@ucop.edu or uc3@ucop.edu

1. Develop infrastructure that might support an EZID UK service by

• creating a UK branded EZID user interface (for ARKs and URNs initially) and
• working toward expanding the technical and policy infrastructure to support users having short-term relationships with EZID (i.e., one-at-a-time identifier creation, no annual subscription required).

Current EZID users may notice the mention of URNs, or Uniform Resource Names, which are used in a number of European cultural heritage organizations. URNs will be the third identifier scheme supported by EZID. As usual, EZID will provide an easy creation, resolution and maintenance mechanism, allowing for automated generation on demand, and arbitrary metadata. More information about URNs is available here.

The ability to request one identifier at a time may be very attractive to small museums, non-profits and unaffiliated researchers who need only a small number of identifiers.

Courtesy of UC Riverside, California Museum of Photography

2. Establish a live replica of the ARK (and URN) resolver service to ensure high availability, faster resolution, and resolver disaster protection.

EZID clients and researchers accessing materials referenced by EZID ARKs will be very glad that the ARK resolver will be replicated. This is the first of several envisioned globally distributed replicas. At the present time, the resolver is backed up, of course, but there are no hot failovers, so service interruptions are a possibility. We have been fortunate to date that these have been extremely limited. However, prudent planning demands a more rigorous approach.

For those who wish to follow the project, the EDINA project website will be available off of the EDINA home page from the projects drop down box at the top. If you have any questions, please contact the EZID Team from the UC Curation Center at CDL.