EZID Transition to Datacite

[Sherry Lake]

I couldn't find a thread specifically taking about the EZID service ending for DOIs (ending the service for all except for California Schools - UC system or anyone still generating ARKs).

Here's EZID's announcement:

http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2017/08/28/ezid-service-update-august-2017/

I've been on a few calls with EZID and DataCite and wonder if Harvard has talked about this implication?

There is a 6 month (to a year if you are actively "trying" to convert) window to change over from EZID to DataCite. This shouldn't be too much of a software problem, since Dataverse has DataCite DOI generation, so for us with institutional Dataverses, it is more about money and a new contract.

Currently there are 3 EZID features that DataCite does not (yet) have:

• web interface to manually add or edit DOIs
  
• reserving DOIs
  
• link checking
  

These features are on DataCite's roadmap: https://www.datacite.org/roadmap.html

So my question is since Dataverse supports minting DataCite DOIs, how are DataCite DOIs "reserved" in Dataverse (since that is not something they support, yet)?

Here's EZID-to-DataCite migration guide:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rsjFl6CvyiGaCE1SMpougZaFc135oBV_CkypoQx9x8g/edit

Can this be a topic of discussion on the next Dataverse Community call?

Thanks for listening.

Sherry

  

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[danny...@g.harvard.edu]

Hey Sherry - I'm sure some folks from the team or the community will add some details here, but I just wanted to add a quick response that we can add this to the agenda for the Tuesday call. Thanks for mentioning it as a candidate!