Persistent Identifiers
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 […]
PIDapalooza 2019 – are you ready to rock!?!
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 will take place at the Griffith Conference Centre, Dublin, Ireland on January 23-24, 2019 – and we hope you’ll join us there! Hosted, once again, by California Digital Library, Crossref, […]
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 […]
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 communication ecosystem. Our work has ranged from experimentation and thought leadership to global PID service offerings. As the home of the ARK standard and the N2T resolver, as well as institutional members […]
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 […]
PIDapalooza is back!
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 interactive sessions, updates, talks by leading PID innovators, and more. There will be lots of opportunities to network – and to learn from and engage with PID enthusiasts from around […]
Dispatches from PIDapalooza
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 persistent identifiers fun! Usually discussions about persistent identifiers (PIDs) and networked research are dry and hard to get through or we find ourselves discussing the basics and never getting to […]