Joan Starr, EZID Service Manager with the California Digital Library, works to promote easier access to and increased acceptance of research data and scholarly communications. In part two of Understanding DOIs, Starr describes what’s required for creating an identifier such as a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) and ARK (Archival Resource Key). Unique, persistent identifiers are important in data management, data documentation, and data citation.
This is the sixth session of the Transportation Librarians Roundtable data management series. Jannean Elliott and Joan Starr partner to provide an ove...
The vision of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) is building the social and technical bridges that enable open sharing of data. Lynn Yarmey presents the...
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