Category: EZID
CDL Staff in Print: John Kunze
John Kunze, Identifier Systems Architect, along with two collaborators from the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) , published an article entitled “The ARK Identifier Scheme: Lessons Learnt at the BnF and Questions Yet Unanswered” in the Journal for the DCMI […]
EZID introduces an OAI-PMH interface
EZID has just implemented a standard Open Archives Initiative, Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) interface, allowing external harvesting of the information we store for most of our identifiers. That’s right–not all identifiers are included. Eligibility criteria are: only real identifiers […]
EZID Service Update: November 2014
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities DataCite’s Metadata Version 3.1 is now supported in EZID’s user interface. From the Create screen, select Advanced and DOI to see the new options. You can also use the new version options with the application […]
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 […]