EZID Service Change Announcement
Working Group Call Location:
Zoom Call: https://notredame.zoom.us/j/7826130987
Repeating: Bi-weekly, Tuesday, 11:30 AM ET
The Samvera EZID to DataCite DOI Working Group will organize and coordinate efforts around Samvera Partners moving from EZID to DataCite for DOI creation. The primary activities will be around building technology support into core Samvera gems, frameworks, and applications to support utilizing DataCite for DOI creation. Currently, many Samvera partners utilize the EZID service to create DOIs. Support for non-U of California system schools will be sunseted in 2018, and at that time all non-UC Samvera partners will need to have shifted to DataCite instead. Consequently, UC-system schools will continue to use EZID and therefore support for both EZID and DataCite should be maintained. There will also be activities and information sharing around logistics for Samvera partners to shift memberships from EZID to DataCite. It is also anticipated that some users may already be using DataCite (e.g., European partners) who may also want to migrate to the produced solution(s).
There are a few different parallel timelines to watch and/or manage regarding this shift:
Technical Action Plan
Testing Plan
Documentation of use and support of DataCite (and EZID for UC support for Samvera partners): Including migration of existing users (EZID or DataCite) and for potential users
Note that following current best practices within Samvera, Working and Interest groups should use an existing channel unless and until it becomes clear that a dedicated channel is needed. This section should specify which existing channel(s) will be used: e.g., samvera-tech, samvera-partners, samvera-community@googlegroups.com. When using a shared channel, individual working groups should start the subject line with their name in []s, such as [archives] for the Archives Working Group. If and when a dedicated channel is needed, the new channel should be well publicized and open to any interested subscribers/participants in the community.
The call for participation will be sent to samvera-community@googlegroups.com, and samvera-tech@googlegroups.com.
Next Call Scheduled on Oct. 27, 2017 at 11:30 PM ET at https://notredame.zoom.us/j/7826130987
Regular meetings will be held every 4-5 weeks on Friday at 11:30 PM ET
Meetings, meeting minutes, deliverables, and milestones will be announced on samvera-community@googlegroups.com, and samvera-tech@googlegroups.com.
We will set up a dedicated (not private, but topic-specific) Slack channel in the Samvera team for asynchronous communication (#eziddatacite). This should help us keep discussions focused and on topic.
Meeting notes recording action items and provisional decisions will be in the Samvera wiki.
Note that Working Groups must have participants from three different Partners. All members of a working group producing software must be licensed Samvera contributors covered by the appropriate CLAs. Other types of contributions such as requirements, design, best practices, documentation, etc. - do not require CLAs but particpants should accept that the materials to which they contribute may be released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License..
Likely external consultants include
EZID Service Change Announcement