EZID Service Update

By Joan Starr, EZID Service Manager

Service Description

EZID (easy-eye-dee) is a production service that makes it simple for digital object producers (researchers and others) to obtain and manage long-term identifiers for their digital content. EZID makes objects easier to access, re-use and verify. As a result, it also makes 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

Training Materials, Guides, FAQs and Webinars

FAQs: http://www.cdlib.org/services/uc3/ezid/faq.html

Service guidelines: http://www.cdlib.org/services/uc3/docs/EZIDServiceGuidelines.pdf

Additional information about EZID is available at http://www.cdlib.org/services/uc3/ezid/index.htm  or by sending an inquiry to uc3@ucop.edu.

Presentations

Joan Starr gave three presentations on data management, data citation, metadata and EZID, at the American Library Association Midwinter meeting January 21^st and 22^nd. Approximately 200 librarians attended the combined sessions.

EZID Partners and Clients

Current EZID clients include academic institutions, government agencies, non-profit organizations and a commercial entity. New additions since last update are in bold.

• UC Berkeley Library (on behalf of the UC Berkeley campus)
• UC Los Angeles (on behalf of the UC LA campus)
• UC San Diego Library (on behalf of the UC San Diego 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/)
• The Digital Archaeological Record (tDAR)  (http://www.tdar.org/)
• Dryad Data Repository  (http://datadryad.org/ )
• Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Data Stewardship & Preservation Cluster (http://www.esipfed.org/)
• Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center  (http://www.fhcrc.org/)
• LabArchives  (http://www.labarchives.com/)
• The National Center for Atmospheric Research (http://ncar.ucar.edu/)
• National Atmospheric and Space Administration (NASA)’s Goddard Space Flight Center (http://earthdata.nasa.gov/)
• Qualitative Data Repository, CQRM  (http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/moynihan/cqrm/About_CQRM/
• USGS/Earth Sciences Data Clearinghouse <formerly National Biological Info. Infrastructure)

One additional UC Library is in the process of acquiring EZID: UC Merced.

Current Activities

• Since the last report, EZID implemented a new API feature: EZID Status Checking. This is helpful for EZID clients who have automated workflows. Being able to checking system status programmatically can be important.
• In January, new EZID outreach materials were made available on the EZID website (http://www.cdlib.org/services/uc3/ezid/). Now, the materials include a customizable postcard as well as a flyer so that libraries that offer EZID as a service can add local contact information as desired.
• The EZID user interface redesign project continues on schedule. Expected completion is in the 1^st quarter of 2012.

Service Statistics

Since June 25, 2010, EZID has had an uptime performance 99.9%. Check EZID’s system status at http://www.cdlib.org/contact/system.html.