FW: [News] DOI News -- March 2003

["Hamaker, Chuck" <cahamake@email.uncc.edu>]

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DOI News -- March 2003

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In this issue:

1.  DOI tools
2.  Metadata interoperability: DOI signs metadata agreement
3.  DOI develops advanced functionality, common metadata tools
4.  DOI applications continue to flourish

1.  DOI tools

A number of tools to help in using DOIs are now available
(http://www.doi.org/tools.html).  More will be added as they become
available. Current tools include:

o Plug-in for Adobe Acrobat(R) and Acrobat Reader(R): an extension to
Adobe's software that uses a DOI to offer customised services specific to
the document -- e.g., alert the reader to a new version of the document.

o Server Side Resolution: scans web pages for DOI links and creates popup
menus containing details of those DOIs.

o DOI Button: JavaScript: paste or type a DOI and then resolve it, or
highlight a DOI on a web page and resolve it without retyping.

o CNRI Handle System Resolver Web Browser: plug-in extension for Internet
Explorer and Netscape -- recognize DOIs and resolve them directly.

o Protocol Handler: JavaScript functionality for Mozilla and Netscape 6
enables direct resolution of DOIs.

o Mozilla Protocol Extender: allows users to specify behaviour when a DOI
of a defined type is activated in a link.

2. Metadata interoperability: DOI signs metadata agreement

The International DOI Foundation has joined several other major standards
activities (among them GILS, ONIX, MARC21, CERIF, IEEE/LOM and Dublin
Core)  in committing to assign URI identifiers to all metadata elements it
uses, and to support the stability, persistence, and maintenance of the
identifiers. This will aid in the development of mapping infrastructures
and interoperability services through a common citation mechanism. DOIs,
of course, are designed from the outset for stability, persistence, and
maintenance and so ideally suited to such a role.  For the full text of
the resolution, see http://www.cores-eu.net/interoperability/.

3. DOI develops advanced functionality, common metadata tools

A number of demonstrations have shown the power of the multiple resolution
functionality of DOIs -- allowing one DOI to offer several choices or
services (e.g., the Adobe Acrobat example showing "latest version"
options:  see "DOI Plug-In for Adobe Products Demonstrated" at
http://www.doi.org).  The International DOI Foundation has developed a
common approach to allow such multiple resolution features to be offered
independently by many different developers, yet maintain an underlying
common logic. DOIs from many sources can be dealt with by the same
mechanisms.

Part of this work leads users to access DOI metadata in a common format:
we are including mappings of ONIX and the MPEG Rights Data Dictionary in
the first release of a practical tool for allocating metadata to DOIs in a
structured way, which will be released shortly, and will add other
mappings as they become available (see earlier DOI News for information on
agreements with ONIX, and IDF�s work on the MPEG-21 RDD standard, now
nearing completion: http://www.doi.org/press_release_archive.html).

This combination of multiple resolution and structured metadata -- called
"Application Profiles" -- offers powerful enhanced DOI functionality and
value. Working groups within IDF are now showing practical implementations
of this approach, and we invite others to join us.

4. DOI applications continue to flourish

The biggest current DOI application, CrossRef (an association of the
world's leading 180 scholarly publishers) now has 6.6 million DOIs
registered from 6,900 journals, with over 2 million DOI resolutions per
month. Further applications to reference works and conference reports are
coming soon. For further details see http://www.crossref.org.

Content Directions, Inc. have announced agreements with Business & Legal
Reports, Inc., to register DOIs for BLR's electronic and print products;  
with Humana Press to assign DOIs across its entire print and eBooks
publishing program; and a strategic alliance with Publishing Dimensions to
easily and rapidly aid publishers to assign DOIs to their electronic and
print content marketed on the Internet.  For further information see
http://www.contentdirections.com/news.htm.

TSO is demonstrating DOI multiple resolution and interoperability across
distributed legislative information sources in the Government and Legal
and Publishing sectors. For further information see http://www.tso.co.uk.

These are just some of the current applications from some of our
Registration Agencies.

o Coming soon: news of multimedia applications, support for DOI in the
library sector, and details of further Registration Agencies

o For further information about DOI, or to join the Foundation's efforts
to promote DOI as a common tool for persistent, interoperable, content
management, email us at contact@doi.org.

 
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