[Treebase-devel] Fwd: new services from the UC Curation Center at the California Digital Library

[Hilmar L. <hl...@ne...>]

Any thoughts about possibly assigning DOIs to studies, or even trees,  
in TreeBASE? Perhaps something for the TreeBASE BoD to discuss at  
their upcoming meeting?

	-hilmar

Begin forwarded message:

EZID (ee-zee-eye-dee) http://www.cdlib.org/services/uc3/ezid/ 
index.html  is a service providing researchers and others a way to  
manage identifiers persistently for datasets, files, and resources of  
all types. The service is available via a machine to machine  
programming interface (an API) and as a web user interface.

What’s so important about identifier management? Persistent  
identification of and access to a scholar’s research is critical to  
the long-term distribution and availability of her or his work. EZID  
lets you update not only a description of the work, but also its  
“forwarding address,” so no matter where the work moves, the citable,  
clickable link to the resource will continue to provide access.

Currently, EZID allows you to acquire DataCite <www.datacite.org <http://www.datacite.org 
 > > Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) or Archival Resource Keys  
(ARKs), and we plan to add other identifier schemes going forward. In  
the future, we will also support object deposit options.

All disciplines can benefit from using EZID. It transcends domain  
boundaries and is applicable to the sciences, humanities and the  
social sciences.  It will work with a range of data types including  
numerical, images, text sequences, text, digital audio, digital video,  
modeling data and more.

Dryad is an EZID user and we would like to open this service to the  
DataONE community.  You can test the service at: http://n2t.net/ezid/help


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