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- Subject: [News] DOI News - April 2005
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DOI News - April 2005
DOI News is a public news release; information contained within this
newsletter can be reproduced and disseminated to all interested parties.
In this issue:
1. New agency: DOIs for scientific data
2. DOI and Google
3. Revision of NISO standard: DOI Syntax
4. IDF appointed as Registration Authority for MPEG Data Dictionary
5. IDF announces strategic review
6. DOI and license terms: ONIX
1. New agency appointed to assign DOIs for scientific data
On 1 May 2005, the German National Library of Science and Technology
(TIB) becomes a DOI Registration Agency. TIB will be developing a
registration facility for the use of DOIs with science data. This
follows the successful completion of the pilot project we announced in
September 2003 to use DOIs for the persistent identification of data
sets, for citation and discovery: "Project announced to develop DOIs for
scientific data: German National Library of Science and Technology joins
IDF". (http://www.doi.org/news/TIBNews.html)
The IDF is extremely pleased to welcome this new initiative, which marks
a further significant step in the expansion of DOI applications to new
data types and sectors. It also marks the success of the IDF’s efforts
to stimulate pilot projects for the use of persistent identifiers.
For further details see the full press release, to be posted shortly at
http://www.doi.org/announce.html, and an article in Data Science Journal
which discusses the application of DOIs to scientific data sets,
pre-print available at http://www.doi.org/topics/041110CODATAarticleDOI.pdf.
2. DOI and Google
Google intends to make widespread use of the DOI in facilitating its
crawling and indexing processes and within search results, as a means to
link to published resources. Google has requested access to all CrossRef
registered DOIs, and recognizes the value of the DOI in ensuring that
"appropriate copy" links get returned within their Google Scholar
OpenURL pilot (see
http://scholar.google.com/scholar_preferences?prev=/). The use of DOIs
in Google is bound to lead over time to much greater awareness of the
DOI among researchers as well. There are now 42 publishers participating
in CrossRef Search, CrossRef's pilot for cross-publisher, full text
search of published, scholarly literature, developed in partnership with
Google (http://www.crossref.org/crossrefsearch.html). The CrossRef
Search pilot was launched in April of 2004, seven months before Google
announced Google Scholar, Google's own pilot for search of scholarly
content across both publisher and institutional sites. Beginning later
this month, the set of results delivered to CrossRef Search will come
from the Google Scholar index as opposed to the general Google index.
The DOI agency CrossRef is now exploring a more formal business
relationship with Google, in order to establish a set of recommended
terms and conditions for Google's use of and access to publishers' full
text content. If there are multiple versions of an article shown in
Google Scholar search results, the first link will be to the publisher's
authoritative copy. CrossRef and Google are working together on
optimizing Google's use of the DOI to use the DOI as the primary means
to link to an article.
3. Revision of NISO standard: DOI Syntax
On April 7, voting closed on the five-year revision of the Z39.84 (2000)
Standard Syntax for the DOI by the US National Information Standards
Organization (NISO).
This revision, which is entirely backward-compatible with the original
2000 standard, contains a substantially re-written forward,
clarification that DOIs have no length restriction, and some technical
updating re Unicode and case sensitivity. Supporting references and
other material have also been updated. Comments from the voting process
will now be incorporated into a final version which we expect to be
passed and issued shortly.
The DOI syntax is one component of the DOI system, as is the Data
Dictionary (see next item). The DOI System as a whole is a work item to
become an ISO standard within TC46/SC9, the ISO body responsible for
"information content identifiers" such as ISBN, ISSN, ISTC, ISRC, etc.
See http://www.doi.org/news/DOINewsNov04.html#1.
4. IDF appointed as Registration Authority for MPEG Data Dictionary
The ISO/IEC Technical Management Board has confirmed (resolution
28/2005, 31 March 2005) the appointment of the International DOI
Foundation (IDF) as the Registration Authority for the MPEG 21 Rights
Data Dictionary (ISO/IEC Information technology -- Multimedia framework
(MPEG-21) -- Part 6: Rights Data Dictionary, ISO/IEC 21000-6). IDF will
now work with ISO to establish operational details of this function.
The Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG), a working group of ISO/IEC,
includes the MPEG-21 "Multimedia Framework" which includes several
components of digital rights management technology standardisation. This
role is entirely complementary and supportive of DOI's use of Data
Dictionary methodology in developing, and having adopted as baseline
technology, the concepts of interoperable metadata as a solution to
MPEG's call for a common dictionary or vocabulary for intellectual
property rights.
For further information see the DOI Factsheet "DOI and data
dictionaries" (http://www.doi.org/factsheets/DOIDataDictionaries.html).
For information on MPEG see the MPEG home page.
5. IDF announces strategic review
The IDF is undertaking a strategic review with input from its members,
registration agencies, founders and other stakeholders to enable the DOI
to fulfil its mission by moving the DOI infrastructure to the next stage
of development. Input from all parties is welcome. For further
information contact n.paskin@doi.org.
6. DOI and license terms: ONIX
In November we noted our participation with the work of the Digital
Libraries Federation's Electronic Resource Management Initiative (ERMI)
and indicated that IDF and EDItEUR had proposed the need for adding
structure to the ERMI list, allowing for interoperability and
extensibility as well as expression in ONIX. EDItEUR has announced an
"ONIX for Licensing Terms" initiative, which will produce a "proof of
concept" demonstrator to show how library licensing terms can be
expressed and communicated in ONIX format, allowing license terms to be
linked to electronic resources and facilitate libraries management of
electronic resources and administration of compliance. IDF will be
participating in the kick-off meeting of the project on April 21 in
London.
See "DOI and license and rights terms":
http://www.doi.org/news/DOINewsNov04.html#3. For further information,
contact Brian Green of EDItEUR, brian@bic.org.uk.
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The DOI is a system for interoperably identifying and exchanging
intellectual property in the digital environment. A DOI assigned to
content enhances a content producer's ability to trade electronically.
It provides a framework for managing content in any form at any level of
granularity, for linking customers with content suppliers, for
facilitating electronic commerce, and enabling automated copyright
management for all types of media. The International DOI Foundation, a
non-profit organization, manages development, policy and licensing of
the DOI to registration agencies and technology providers and advises on
usage and development of related services and technologies.
This is a service announcement for the International Digital Object
Identifier Foundation and has been prepared to increase you awareness
about important developments to enable digital copyright management of
intellectual property. For more information about the DOI, see
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