EZID
UC3 New Year Series: Persistent Identifiers at CDL in 2025
CDL’s persistent identifier portfolio, which includes the Research Organization Registry (ROR), EZID, Name-to-Thing (N2T), and the new Collaborative Metadata Enrichment Taskforce (COMET) initiative, had a busy and productive year in 2024, seeing record adoption, interest, and making significant technical improvements across its services. These complementary work streams help build a more rational, networked, and efficient […]
Welcome, Adam Buttrick: Introducing UC3’s new Persistent Identifiers Product Manager
Championing PIDs and Open Science at UC3 Hello! My name is Adam Buttrick and I’m excited to be joining the UC3 team to lead its portfolio of persistent identifier-focused products and services. Prior to joining UC3, while based at Crossref, I had the privilege to help build a new persistent identifier service, the Research Organization […]
Join the UC3 Team: Two Senior Product Manager positions now open
UC Curation Center (UC3) is recruiting two Senior Product Manager positions. This is a unique opportunity for someone passionate about shaping the future of scholarly infrastructure on a global scale. If you’re a creative thinker with a knack for innovation, strategic planning, and product management, please consider applying. The past few years have been full […]
Reflections on Persistence: A Farewell to CDL
Today marks the conclusion of my 5+ year chapter working with the UC3 team at CDL and collaborators across the the world to build, lead, and support infrastructure and initiatives for a more open, connected, and sustainable research ecosystem. This chapter comes to a close as I embark on a new one: joining DataCite as […]
Identifier services at CDL: Connecting our communities
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 for the first time due to the COVID-19 pandemic, PIDapalooza21 was able to attract a much larger audience than any of the four previous PIDapaloozas. But even by virtual event […]
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 persistent identifiers can help enrich and connect the scholarly outputs and cultural heritage materials of the University of California system. Persistent identifiers in this sense both drive and support CDL’s […]
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 been a leading example in the library and research community for how digital curation tools can enable and be enabled by persistent identifiers. The goal of the EZID service was […]
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 broad persistent identifier portfolio at CDL. EZID is a great tool for creating and managing DOIs and ARKs—what else could it do? For nearly a decade, California Digital Library’s EZID […]
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 Library. Greg, who joined CDL’s UC3 team at 50% time 10 years ago, shifted to CDL’s infrastructure team for a few years, and until June 2019 will work again with […]
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 launching the Org ID initiative, with the goal of defining requirements for an open, community-led organization identifier registry. The goal of our initiative has been to offer a transparent, accessible […]