Category: Infrastructure Services
ARKs in the Open – Project Update #1
As announced last week, the California Digital Library (CDL) and DuraSpace are collaborating to build an open, international community around Archival Resource Keys (ARKs) and their use as persistent identifiers in the open scholarly ecosystem. We’re calling the project ARKs […]
CDL and DuraSpace launch open community outreach initiative for ARK identifiers
California Digital Library (CDL) and DuraSpace are pleased to announced a collaboration aimed at building an open, international community around Archival Resource Keys (ARKs) and their use as persistent identifiers in the open scholarly ecosystem. Over 550 institutions (research, not-for-profit, […]
EZID Service Update: January 2018
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Identifier Systems Architect John Kunze participated in two panel discussions at the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Winter Meeting. John spoke on YAMZ, a crowd-sourced metadata dictionary at the GeoSemantics symposium. YAMZ offers a […]
ARK Identifier Summit at the National Library of France, 21 March 2018
The BnF (Bibliothèque nationale de France) is organizing an ARK Identifier Summit in Paris on March 21 of 2018. As maintenance agency for the ARK standard, the California Digital Library is helping to plan the event, which will be conducted […]
Reports of EZID’s death are greatly exaggerated
In 1897, Mark Twain is said to have read his own obituary, and then remarked, “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.” And Mark Twain isn’t the only one to have this sorry experience, as Wikipedia’s List of premature […]
Michael McKinnon Retires
Michael McKinnon, System Architect in CDL’s Infrastructure and Applications Support group, will be retiring on February 2, 2018. As many of you know, Michael has been the bedrock upon which the CDL technical infrastructure rested for the past 10 years. […]
EZID Service Update: October 2017
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities EZID is changing its DOI service, and implementation is underway. More information is available here: https://ezid.cdlib.org/learn/doi_services_faq. If you have questions about your specific situation, please contact us. EZID Partners and Clients Our current EZID […]
EZID Service Update: September 2017
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities As announced in early August, EZID is changing its DOI service. If you did not read the announcement, you can find it here: http://cdlib.org/2017/08/04/ezid-doi-service-is-evolving/. Implementation began in September with these steps: We asked DOI-service […]
EZID Service Update: August 2017
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities EZID announced a major shift in its DOI service, scaling back its scope of business to encompass solely the University of California (UC). Non-UC clients will be gradually transitioned to an alternate DOI service […]
EZID DOI Service is Evolving
By Joan Starr, EZID Service Manager, California Digital Library; Michael Witt, Associate Professor of Library Science, Purdue University Libraries; and, Patricia Cruse, Executive Director, DataCite The California Digital Library (CDL) and Purdue University are adopting a new strategic direction for […]