Author: Joan Starr
EZID Service Update: February 2016
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities DataCite announced two draft specifications for comment. First, the DataCite to Dublin Core application profile (DC2AP) describes how to construct a Dublin Core compatible DataCite metadata record using Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) metadata terms […]
EZID Service Update: January 2016
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities This month re3data.org announced a new metadata schema (http://www.re3data.org/2016/01/new-re3data-org-schema-and-search-functionality/). re3data.org is the Registry of Research Data Repositories, and it has been part of DataCite since 2014. A quick search of the registry for UC […]
EZID Service Update: December 2015
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities EZID clients had another interesting exchange about “evolving” or dynamic datasets this month. This is clearly a topic that concerns many data managers. The latest discussion is here: http://bit.ly/1P7vLA4. In late November, DataCite held […]
EZID Service Update: November 2015
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities An EZID client recently wondered about a DOI that seemed to be broken, and this lead to the topic of reserved identifiers, a special EZID feature. By default, the DOIs and ARKs that you create […]
EZID Service Update: October 2015
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities DataCite, CrossRef and ORCID made a joint announcement of a new development: auto-updates to your ORCID profile. What this means: ORCIDs are unique persistent identifiers for researchers. Until now, researchers with ORCID profiles have had […]
EZID Service Update: September 2015
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities EZID Lead Architect John Kunze participated in the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications in Sao Paulo Brazil and presented a poster on Identifiers made easy with EZID. Kunze also presented at […]
EZID Service Update: August 2015
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities We announced our 2015-2017 Roadmap, the result of long-range strategic planning conducted this summer. The planning process included gathering input from UC campus representatives, non-UC EZID clients, and internal CDL clients. DataCite announced two […]
EZID Service Update: July 2015
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities EZID clients engaged in a lively discussion on EZID’s listserv about DOI assignment to datasets that change over time. If you have been reading about data citation over the last few years, you may […]
EZID Service Update: June 2015
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities At the beginning of the month, DataCite DOI services were interrupted on an intermittent basis for two days. Subsequent research by the DataCite technical team identified the cause as a runaway process that acted […]
EZID Service Update: May 2015
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities This month, we made the move to the “cloud-based infrastructure” mentioned in last month’s update. EZID is now hosted on Amazon Web Services. As mentioned previously, we made this change because we expect the […]