Yes, it’s back and – with your support – it’s going to be better than ever! The third annual PIDapalooza open festival of persistent identifiers…
Author: John Chodacki
Org ID: a recap and a hint of things to come
Over the past couple of years, a group of organizations with a shared purpose—California Digital Library, Crossref, DataCite, and ORCID—invested our time and energy into…
A Carpentries-Based Approach to Teaching FAIR Data and Software Principles
originally posted by Chris Erdmann Recently, I was lucky to participate in an innovative workshop held at Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) Hannover from 9 – 13…
Internet Archive, Code for Science and Society, and California Digital Library to Partner on a Data Sharing and Preservation Pilot Project
In 2017, CDL joined Code for Science & Society (CSS) on the dat in the lab project. The Moore Foundation-funded project is currently piloting the…
Job Opening: UC3 Product Manager (EZID) / Research Data Specialist
California Digital Library (CDL) has built a strong portfolio of innovative projects and initiatives concerned with promoting the use of persistent identifiers throughout the scholarly…
New hire: Library Carpentry Community & Development Director
We’re excited to announce that Chris Erdmann has been hired as the Library Carpentry Community and Development Director starting May 4, 2018. Chris has been…
PIDapalooza is back!
Guess what!?!? PIDapalooza is back! This time we will meet up with the nerdiest PID folks on January 23-24, for a two-day celebration of persistent identifiers and…
Skills Training for Librarians: Expanding Library Carpentry
In today’s data-driven, online and highly interconnected world, librarians are key to supporting diverse information needs and leading best practices to work with and manage data. For librarians to be effective in a rapidly evolving information landscape, training and professional development opportunities in both computational and data skills must be available and accessible. Over the… Read more »
RFI for organizational identifier registry
Organizations/institutions are a key part of the scholarly communications ecosystem. However, we lack an openly licensed, independently run organizational identifier standard to use for common affiliation and citation use cases. To define a solution to this problem, a group of interested parties drafted and shared a proposal at last year’s PIDapalooza. Based on that discussion, earlier… Read more »
NSF EAGER Grant for Actionable DMPs
We’re delighted to announce that the California Digital Library has been awarded a 2-year NSF EAGER grant to support active, machine-actionable data management plans (DMPs). The vision is to convert DMPs from a compliance exercise based on static text documents into a key component of a networked research data management ecosystem that not only facilitates,… Read more »