Download - Nielsen BookData DOI Registration Agency Update Julian Sowa DOI Project Manager 22 June 2004
Nielsen BookDataDOI Registration Agency Update
Julian Sowa
DOI Project Manager
22 June 2004
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Company Profile
• Formed out of Book Data and Whitaker Information Services:– Have provided information services to the English-language book trade
for 150 years
– Over 170 staff in UK
– Revenues in 2003 around $23million
– Part of VNU, the publishing and information company whose revenues exceed $4billion
• Managed Standard Address Number agency for UK since 1991
• Managed the UK ISBN agency since 1969
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DOI Experience
• Monitored development of DOI system since 1998
• IDF membership since 2001
• Believe DOIs have huge potential in connection with our core activities – initiative only delayed due to our corporate restructuring
• Appointed as Registration Agency in January 2004
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What are we doing now?
• Implementing systems to enable online DOI registration and maintenance
• Service to be launched by this Autumn
• Working with prospective registrants
• Focus on English-language book trade, but will consider other sectors where our experience could add value
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Issues for registrants
• Reflects our experience with printed books, especially ONIX
• Education needed!
• Decisions needed on use of prefixes:– Balance between future-proofing and managability
• Decisions concerning metadata:– What applications will there be?
– Is “kernel” metadata absolutely necessary?
– Bibliographers needed
– What are the risks with side-stepping these issues?
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Next steps
• Book trade is historically conservative and risk-averse
• Development of new value-added services: a “chicken and egg” process?
• Business model depends on identifying registrants’ current and future needs
• Further pilot registrants welcome