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

[William P. <wil...@ya...>]

hmm..  given that we're already advertising purls, if we issued yet another handle that would produce yet more redundancy, unless there are special advantages to these alternatives. So it it the case that the $1 per DOI cost is absorbed by someone else? (and forever?)

bp


On Sep 23, 2010, at 10:09 AM, Hilmar Lapp wrote:

> 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?
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> 	-hilmar
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> Begin forwarded message:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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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