EZID Service Update: July, August and September 2013

Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities

• The DataCite summer meeting was held on September 19-20th, following the Research Data Alliance (RDA) Second Plenary. The meeting had the highest attendance yet for a DataCite conference, with participants coming from all over the globe. Slides and audio recordings will be made available soon, so stay tuned.
• EZID is now the fastest growing DOI allocation agency among the DataCite member organizations, with more than 800,000 identifiers created. For a look at CDL’s DOI statistics, visit the DataCite statistics service: http://stats.datacite.org/. For a list of all available DataCite Services, see (http://www.datacite.org/services).
• We began laying the groundwork for new group-level administrative capabilities. When completed, these will offer more end-user control over identifier ownership. More details will be available soon.
• EZID technical staff completed an update to the EZID User Interface (UI) allowing submission of DataCite XML for the new version 3.0 required and recommended metadata elements, and clients were invited to help test the new features. Submitting as much of the recommended metadata as possible is very important. Thomson Reuters will begin indexing DataCite content for exposure in their new Data Citation Index (part of the Web of Knowledge platform), but only for records that contain both the required and recommended metadata.
• EZID clients were invited to submit suggestions and/or questions about the DataCite metadata schema (http://schema.datacite.org/) to the DataCite Metadata Working Group using the group’s new discussion forum at: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!forum/datacite-metadata.

EZID Partners and Clients

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

New this period:

• Columbia University Libraries/Information Services on behalf of Columbia University http://library.columbia.edu/
• Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) http://www.renci.org/
• Cyberinfrastructure for Atomistic Materials Science (CAMS) http://cams.mse.ufl.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
• Brown University Library http://library.brown.edu/
• 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/
• Columbia University Libraries/Information Services on behalf of Columbia University http://library.columbia.edu/
• Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research http://ciser.cornell.edu/
• Cornell University Library http://www.library.cornell.edu/
• Cyberinfrastructure for Atomistic Materials Science (CAMS) http://cams.mse.ufl.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/
• Harvard University on behalf of the DataVerse Network http://thedata.harvard.edu/dvn/
• The Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) http://www.iris.edu/
• 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 http://www.lternet.edu/sites/lno
• 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/
• OneOcean http://www.oneoceancorp.com/
• 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/
• Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) http://www.renci.org/
• Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) Program http://www.rvdata.us/
• Rutgers University Libraries http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/
• Sage Bionetworks http://sagebase.org/
• UNAVCO http://www.unavco.org/
• Université Claude Bernard Lyon Library http://www.univ-lyon1.fr/
• 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 Core Science Clearinghouse (formerly National Biological Info. Infrastructure)
  (http://www.usgs.gov/core_science_systems/cas/metadata/index.html)
• 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.