1. EZIDEasy Identifiers
UC Curation Center
California Digital Library

2. Agenda
The problem statement
The EZID Approach
An EZID demo
Why Use EZID?
Questions
3. The research data problem
Journal article
Uniquely and persistently identified
Concept of publish
Multiple copies
Easily findable
Additional services: impact metrics, citation tracking, etc.
Research data
Nope
Not really
Typically one
Difficult
Nope

Second-class citizens in scholarly record