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Category: Infrastructure Services

EZID Service Update: May 2015

  Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities This month, we made the move to the “cloud-based infrastructure” mentioned in last month’s update. EZID is now hosted on Amazon Web Services. As mentioned previously, we made this change because we expect the […]

CDL Staff in Print – Joan Starr and John Kratz in PeerJ

Joan Starr, EZID Service Manager, and John Kratz, a CLIR/DLF Data Curation Fellow, along with a number of collaborators, published an article entitled “Achieving human and machine accessibility of cited data in scholarly publications” in the inaugural issue of PeerJ’s  […]

EZID Service Update: April 2015

  Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities This month, the EZID Team worked behind the scenes to migrate EZID to a “cloud-based infrastructure.” While that sounds slightly make-believe, it refers to a way of provisioning information technology (IT) resources that is […]

EZID Service Update: March 2015

  Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities EZID’s CrossRef service went into production this month with CDL’s own eScholarship as the first publisher to make use of the ground-breaking partnership. As a reminder, the EZID CrossRef service means that qualified EZID […]

EZID Service Update: February 2015

  Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities EZID implemented a new feature called “batch download” that allows clients to download a copy of all or some of their identifiers and descriptive information (i.e. metadata) in a big “batch”. Initially, the feature […]

EZID introduces a batch download feature

EZID has just implemented a feature allowing clients to download a copy of all or some of their identifiers and descriptive information (i.e. metadata). We call it “batch” download, because EZID returns all requested identifiers in one large file. Clients […]

EZID Service Update: January 2015

  Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities EZID added new functionality to the User Interface (UI). Starting immediately, you can edit an existing identifier that uses any metadata profile (ERC, Dublin Core or simple DataCite) and convert it to the advanced […]

EZID Service Update: December 2014

    EZID 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. The full story is at CDLINFO News: http://cdlib.org/2014/12/15/ezid-oai-pmh/.OAI-PMH represents greater opportunities for […]

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 […]