Category: UC Curation Center (UC3)
EZID Staff in Print: John Kunze and Greg Janée in bioRxiv
John Kunze, Identifier Systems Architect, and Greg Janée, EZID Technical Lead, along with a number of collaborators, published a preprint entitled “Uniform Resolution of Compact Identifiers for Biomedical Data” in bioRxiv, the preprint server for biology. It is available at […]
DMPTool Service Update: November 2016
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Bug fixes and enhancements: Our development efforts are mostly trained on the new Roadmap platform, however, there were a few DMPTool things that deserved attention this month. Institutional admins will notice improvements for assigning admin roles and a […]
EZID Service Update: November 2016
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities On Nov. 10, John Kunze (EZID’s Lead Architect) presented at Pidapalooza, the first international conference dedicated to persistent identifiers. The full schedule and some conference materials are available on the conference website. Conference attendees […]
New and improved Dash
Researchers are increasingly being asked to publish their datasets. For some disciplines, there are well-known conventions and repositories for doing this. However, for the vast majority of researchers, it is difficult to determine best practices and/or trustworthy places to publish […]
New milestones for electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
CDL is proud to assist UC campus libraries with the publishing and preservation of ETDs (electronic masters theses and PhD dissertations). In recent months, we have accomplished a couple of huge milestones that the entire UC system can be proud […]
EZID Service Update: October 2016
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities EZID’s big news this month was the introduction of link checking. EZID will be checking target URL links for DOIs and ARKs on a monthly basis, though for accounts with hundreds of thousands or […]
DMPTool Service Update: September 2016
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities New template: Department of Defense (details on the blog) Themes: We’re still collecting feedback on the revised set of themes for DMP templates and guidance (details on the blog). Machine-actionable DMPs. Join us for PIDapalooza […]
Cobweb: Collaborative Collection Development for Web Archives
A partnership between the CDL, Harvard Library, and UCLA Library has been award funding from IMLS to create Cobweb, a collaborative collection development platform for web archiving, https://github.com/CobwebOrg/cobweb. The demands of archiving the web in comprehensive breadth or thematic depth easily exceed […]
EZID Introduces Link Checking
The EZID team is happy to announce the introduction of link checking. EZID now checks the location URLs (links) of all identifiers to see if any are broken. Here are the details: EZID runs a harvester that continuously checks links. […]
EZID Service Update: September 2016
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities John Kunze, EZID’s Lead Architect, presented a paper at SciDataCon, part of International Data Week in Denver, CO (September 11-17). John’s paper, “A Vocabulary for Persistence,” (http://www.scidatacon.org/2016/sessions/103/paper/109/) was part of the Semantic Enrichment, Metadata and […]