Category: EZID
DataCite Metadata Scheme update
The DataCite Metadata Scheme has been updated, and the schema and accompanying documentation are now available in Version 2.1. The Schema is accessible at this location: http://datacite.org/schema/datacite-metadata-v2.1.xsd (http://datacite.org/schema/datacite-metadata-v2.1.xsd). The documentation is here: http://datacite.org/schema/DataCite-MetadataKernel_v2.1.pdf Several early adopters and other careful readers […]
DataCite Metadata Scheme is published
The DataCite Metadata Scheme has been finalized and is now available here (http://datacite.org/schema/DataCite-MetadataKernel_v2.0.pdf). After many months and a lot of very early morning conference calls with my European colleagues, I am delighted to make this announcement. The core group that […]
CDLers (and UCSBer) in Print
The latest D-Lib magazine is a special issue devoted to Research Data. It has an international list of authors, including a few from close to home. John Kunze and Patricia Cruse, University of California Curation Center; and Greg Janée, University […]
DataCite Turns One
Recently I attended the General Assembly of DataCite, the international organization devoted to providing a reliable means of citing research data. The organization has made remarkable progress in a year and is well on the way to providing this critical […]
Go Giants! Persist!
Hundreds of thousands of Giants fans crowded the streets of downtown San Francisco (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2010/11/04/MNM51G6DMS.DTL) to welcome their conquering heroes home, many having waited a lifetime for the pleasure. Orange and black confetti poured out office buildings lining the business district. […]
UC3 EZID webinar 10/26 3:30-4:30pm PT
UC3 is offering a webinar on the new EZID (easy-eye-dee) service on October 26th at 3:30 pm (PT). EZID makes it simple for researchers and others to obtain and manage long-term identifiers for their digital content. The service can create […]
Deposit, save, share, find that content and data: new UC3 services launch
The University of California Curation Center (UC3) is excited to be launching three new services September 15 and 17, 2010. They include Merritt (named for CDL’s close neighbor, Lake Merritt), a tool for the UC community to manage, archive and […]
Persistence
Since March, I’ve had the opportunity of working with the UC3 team at CDL. I joined part time, you might say, as the project manager for the EZID/DataCite project. (I wear a lot of hats here.) In this role, I’m […]