EZID Service Update: April 2013

Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities

• 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.