Tag: DataCite
EZID: now even easier to manage identifiers
EZID (http://n2t.net/ezid), the easy long-term identifier service, just got a new look. EZID lets you create and maintain ARKs and DataCite Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs), and now it’s even easier to use: One stop for EZID and all EZID information, […]
EZID Client List growing
EZID (easy-eye-dee) offers a simple but powerful way to use identifiers to track research materials, including datasets, throughout their lifecycle. EZID’s unique identifiers can be highly reliable aids in data management, data sharing, and citation tracking. The service had a soft […]
Facilitating Data Management: DCXL
CDL has launched a new project dubbed Digital Curation for Excel (DCXL), led by UC3’s project manager Carly Strasser. Carly comes to the CDL with a PhD in Biological Oceanography from Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; her most […]
Data and the Scholarly Record: the Changing Landscape: Join us August 24-25
DataCite will hold its second Summer Meeting on August 24th and 25th at the historic Shattuck Plaza Hotel in Berkeley, California. The Summer Meeting — Data and the Scholarly Record: the Changing Landscape—will be a 1.5 day event hosted by […]
Learn more about digital preservation, web archiving and data curation
UC3, CDL is pleased to announce a Summer Webinar Series highlighting projects, services, and developments in the areas of digital preservation, web archiving and data curation. A goal of the webinars is to raise awareness of these issues, and the […]
EZID: A Tool for Creation and Long-Term Management of Identifiers
Recently our EZID (http://n2t.net/ezid) service was reviewed on four points: 1. EZID represents a single point of failure, and, as such is vulnerable. 2. URLs are “a globally deployed identifier scheme” that have endured and provide the functionality cultural heritage […]
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 […]