Digital Object Identifier: overview

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Norman Paskin, International DOI Foundation

• Created in 1998; • supports the needs of the intellectual property community in the

digital environment, by the development and promotion of the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) system as a common infrastructure for content management;

• controlled by a Board, elected by the members of the Foundation;• activities of the Foundation are controlled by its members, operating

under a legal Charter and formal By-laws; • membership is open to all organizations with an interest in electronic

publishing, content distribution, rights management, and related enabling technologies;

• membership is international.

Today the foundation has over 200 companies using several million DOIs.

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doi>Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• DOI is a system for persistent and actionable identification and interoperable exchange of intellectual property on digital networks;

• DOI is made up of two components, the prefix and the suffix;

• Value of the DOI system lies in its combination of Resolution, Metadata and Policy.

DOI

Prefix

Suffix

10.1000/123456

doi>Features of DOI

Resolution -• ensures persistence by resolving the DOI to a current associated value

such as a URL;• resolution may be to multiple pieces of data (multiple resolution);• the Handle System is the resolution system used.

Metadata - • based on <indecs> activity;• consistent with systems such as ONIX and MPEG-21 rdd;• enables mappings between application areas consistently.

Policy -• provides rules and mechanisms for implementation;• use of Registration agencies which operate under same rules as an

operational federation.

doi>Benefits of DOI

Actionable Identifier -• a user can use a DOI to do something;

• the technology, which underlies the DOI, facilitates much more complex applications than simple location finding;

• DOI identifies the intellectual property entity itself rather than its location.

Persistent Identifier -• if ownership of the entity or the rights in the entity change, the

identification of that entity should not (and does not) change;

• the responsibility for managing the DOI changes, but not the DOI itself. Interoperable Identifier -• DOI System has been designed to be able to interoperate with past,

present and future technologies.

DOI Administration - Creation

Administrator (publisher.com)

Identifier: DOI: 10.XXXX/1234 URL: http://publisher.com/10.X...Title: New Horizona - Latin JazzAgent = Author: John Jakob-JemènezType: digital fileMode: Text: 250 pages Images: 20 Moving Images: 2 Audio: 20Release Date: January 1, 2001Rights Profile: Translation Paperback ElectronicEmail Contact: info@pub1.comOther Titles by Author: Title 2; Title 3Retailers: amazon; bol;

DOI data and metadata (XMLbatch)

DOI data and metadata

Registration Agency

Metadata Collection

metadata

DOI System

DOI data

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Multiple Resolution

Syndicator - RetailerDistributor - Rights Person

Trade AssociationMultimedia Publisher

Data Aggragator - Consumer

Resolution Request

DOI System Metadata Collection

DOI 10.XXXX/123

Type Data

Index

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The DOI brings together two major fundamentals which ensure long term extensibility and interoperability of various types of intellectual property within various systems, wireless applications, broadcasting and Internet applications:

The DOI System – Open Standards

The Handle System - a distributed, scalable system based on open protocols, which manages digital intellectual property as first class entities. Both the Handle System resolution and the DOI metadata components are structured, consistent, and manageable so it is possible to apply DOIs to any content and to develop further tools for content management.

The <indecs> Framework - a broad multi-industry effort which defined principles for metadata and how existing metadata systems can be mapped into a standard interoperable form. On an open standards basis, this framework is currently being expanded to create <indecs>rdd, a Rights Data Dictionary for multimedia rights management, because unlike kernel metadata, rights data is transient and dynamic.

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The DOI System – Standards Tracking

The DOI is one component of a fast developing technological infrastructure for the management of intellectual property in the network environment. There are many different players involved in the development of that infrastructure, ranging from technical organizations to the "content industries" themselves.

WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) ISO (International Standards Organization) NISO (National Information Standards Organization) IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) OeBF (Open eBook Forum) MPEG 21 (Moving Picture Experts Group)

A significant element of the work of the IDF lies in tracking standards developments in related areas, understanding their significance to the context within which the DOI will operate, and establishing working relationships with organizations and projects to ensure that appropriate co-operation is fostered to mutual benefit (and that parallel developments do not remain in ignorance of one another).

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How to Get Started

Become a member of IDF and participate in working groups, receive white papers and internal membership reports and meeting briefings. More information can be found at http://www.doi.org/membership/brochure.html.

To become a Registration Agency, please see more information at http://www.doi.org/registration_agencies.html.

To obtain a DOI Prefix you need to apply to a DOI Registration Agency or the IDF. More information can be found at http://www.doi.org/faq.html#2.

For further general information, please see the DOI Handbook at http://www.doi.org and email contact@doi.org.

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