The official countdown to PIDapalooza 2020 begins here! It’s 162 days to go till our flame-lighting opening ceremony at the fabulous Belém Cultural Center in…
Category: Persistent Identifiers
Passing the Torch of Persistence: EZID Development Update
Posted in EZID, Persistent Identifiers, and UC3
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…
Hear Us ROR! Announcing Our First Prototype and Next Steps
Posted in OrgID, Persistent Identifiers, Projects, and ROR
What has hundreds of heads, 91,000 affiliations, and roars like a lion? If you guessed the Research Organization Registry community, you’d be absolutely right! Last…
Where We Go From Here: An Update on EZID
Posted in EZID, and Persistent Identifiers
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…
PIDapalooza 2019 – are you ready to rock!?!
Posted in events, Persistent Identifiers, and PIDapalooza
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…
Org ID: a recap and a hint of things to come
Posted in EZID, OrgID, Persistent Identifiers, PIDapalooza, and Projects
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
Posted in EZID, Hiring, Persistent Identifiers, and UC3
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…
RFI for organizational identifier registry
Posted in Persistent Identifiers, Projects, and UC3
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…
PIDapalooza is back!
Posted in Digital Curation, events, Persistent Identifiers, and PIDapalooza
PIDapalooza is back, by popular demand! We’re building on the the best of the inaugural PIDapalooza and organizing two days packed with discussions, demos, informal and…
Dispatches from PIDapalooza
Posted in events, Persistent Identifiers, PIDapalooza, and UC3
Last month, California Digital Library, ORCID, Crossref, and Datacite brought together the brightest minds in scholarly infrastructure to do the impossible: make a conference on…