Last week, more than 1100 people registered to attend PIDapalooza21, a 24-hour-long virtual event celebrating persistent identifiers and the communities that use them. Held online…
Category: EZID
Persistent Identifier Services at CDL: A Rich Tapestry
EZID is one strand in a larger tapestry of persistent identifier activity at CDL. These activities, at their core, are focused on how and where…
Passing the Torch of Persistence: EZID Development Update
Persistent identifiers are the backbone of scholarly communication infrastructure and long-term digital preservation, key to supporting a fully networked research ecosystem. CDL’s EZID service has…
Where We Go From Here: An Update on EZID
Rather than thinking about EZID solely as a tool or a service, we want to situate it instead as one layer of a deep and…
Greg Janée in Transition
Greg Janée, lead developer for the EZID service, has recently stepped up to be the Director of the Data Curation Program at the UCSB…
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…
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…
The DataCite Meeting in Nancy, France
Last week I took a lovely train ride through the cow-dotted French countryside to attend the 2014 DataCite Annual Conference. The event was held at the Institut de l’information Scientifique et Technique (INIST) in Nancy, France, which is about 1.5 hours by train outside of Paris. INIST is the French DataCite member (more on DataCite later). […]