About Us

EZID Team

• Maria Gould, Product Manager.
  Maria Gould is the EZID Product Manager for the California Digital Library (CDL). Maria leads CDL's innovative projects and initiatives concerned with the use of persistent identifiers throughout the scholarly communication ecosystem, including the adoption of DOIs for publications, DOIs for data, ARKs, ORCiDs, organizational identifiers, etc. The centerpiece of these efforts is the EZID service that makes persistent identifiers easy for UC campus projects and beyond.
  
• John Kunze, Identifier Systems Architect.
  John Kunze is Identifier Systems Architect for CDL, and has a background in computer science and mathematics. His current work focuses on dataset curation, creating long-term durable information object references using ARK identifiers and the N2T resolver, and promoting lightweight Dublin Core "Kernel" metadata. He contributed heavily to the standardization of URLs, Dublin Core metadata, and the Z39.50 search and retrieval protocol.
  
• Rushiraj Nenuji, Software Developer.
  Rushiraj Nenuji is the software developer and technical lead for EZID. He is also Science Software Engineer at UCSB's National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), where he works on eco-informatics projects and supports open infrastructure for scientific research.
  

 

About EZID

EZID is a service conceived, built, and maintained by the California Digital Library (CDL). CDL was founded by the University of California in 1997 to take advantage of emerging technologies that were transforming the way digital information was being published and accessed. CDL's diverse and talented staff has assembled one of the world's largest digital research libraries and has changed the ways that faculty, students, and researchers discover and access information.

CDL has relationships with a wide range of researchers across the University, including natural history museums, research groups, individual scientists, and faculty members on all 10 UC campuses. CDL staff members bring a unique blend of experience to this multi-disciplinary venture. CDL staff members have formal training in science, mathematics, the humanities, and information science, as well as deep professional experience in the creation of software, services, and funded proposals.

CDL has extensive contacts with scientists, within the University of California and beyond via projects funded by the Library of Congress, National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health (pending) and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. More information about CDL's grants and partnerships is available. Finally, CDL is a founding member of the international DataCite consortium, which is dedicated to providing the social and technical infrastructure that will enable data sharing and publication.