Author: Joan Starr
EZID Service Update: October 2014
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities The DataCite Metadata Working Group released Version 3.1 of the DataCite Schema. This version adds: New affiliation attributes for Creator and Contributor A new contributorType: DataCurator Two new relatedIdentifierTypes (arXiv and bibcode) Two new […]
EZID Service Update: September 2014
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities EZID’s user interface now allows editing of metadata for all identifiers, including those created with the Advanced Create UI screen and even those submitted using the application programming interface (API). To see how this […]
EZID Service Update: August 2014
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities The EZID Team introduced the long-awaited suffix-passthrough feature for ARK identifiers. Suffix- passthrough greatly reduces the management burden for large datasets. To learn more see http://cdlib.org/2014/08/19/suffixpassthru/. And for the more detailed information and working […]
Identifier Wild Card! Introducing Suffix Pass-through
Earlier this year, the ARK resolver software was upgraded in some important ways, most of which were technical enhancements that improve performance and/or lay the groundwork for interesting things to come. One change we can now make available is an […]
CDL and CrossRef agreement to benefit EZID's library publisher clients
Today, August 5, 2014, California Digital Library and CrossRef announced an agreement that opens a route for the library publishers served by CDL’s EZID service (ezid.cdlib.org) to participate in the scholarly communications hub created by CrossRef. EZID’s non-profit publishing clients […]
EZID Service Update: July 2014
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities On the EZID documentation page (http://ezid.cdlib.org/home/documentation) we’ve recently added a link under Technical Documentation to a wiki page that lists open source software for EZID. As the new page states, we do not support […]
EZID Service Update: June 2014
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities After consultation with groups of EZID clients, including UC campus representatives, non-UC EZID clients, and internal CDL clients, the EZID team prepared our 2014-15 roadmap, which is now available for review: https://confluence.ucop.edu/display/DataCite/EZID+Roadmap+2014-15. We thank […]
EZID Service Update: May 2014
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities As a result of an upgrade announced in April to N2T, EZID’s backend storage system and ARK resolver, for the first time ever all of EZID’s identifiers and native resolution capabilities are being securely […]
EZID Service Update: April 2014
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities EZID responded to the widely reported OpenSSL “Heartbleed” bug by upgrading our OpenSSL installation and replacing our security certificates to eliminate this particular vulnerability. For more information about CDL’s response to the Heartbleed bug, […]
EZID wins 2013/14 DataCite Gold Award
At DataCite‘s General Assembly meeting this year in Dublin, Ireland, EZID was honored with the 2013/14 Gold Award for assigning more than 500,000 DOIs (digital object identifiers) in 14 months. This is the second Gold Award for EZID, and we […]