New Cross Ref Affiliates Newsletter.

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

Excerpted from the latest Cross Ref Affiliates Newsletter
http://www.crossref.org/01company/10newsletter.html

DOIs for Scientific Data 

Names for Life is a project to assign DOIs to scientific names and the
taxa they represent. A paper on this by Garrity and Lyons -
"Future-Proofing Biological Nomenclature" is available in OMICS: A Journal
of Integrative Biology,
7:31-33,http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/153623103322006562(only available to
subscribers). A model for assigning DOIs to prokaryotic taxa is being
developed as a test case. As Names for Life develops, CrossRef will be
looking at ways to collaborate with the project. A paper has also been
submitted to the Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature Jerald D Harris of
the University of Pennsylvania proposing that the International Code of
Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) be updated to accept articles published
online with a DOI as valid, citable sources of zoological taxonomic
information and that their electronic publication dates be considered
definitive, which is not the case now.

IDF Update 

The IDF has reconstituted the Registration Agencies Working Group (RAWG)
as a forum for the IDF Registration Agencies (there are now 7 RAs) to work
together and be more directly involved in the work of the IDF. This is a
very important development and is a step towards to the IDF becoming an
operating federation of RAs, rather than a membership organization.
CrossRef is Chair of the RAWG, and the first teleconference was held July
22. One of the main issues is to develop a more formal agreement between
the RAs and the IDF - a draft of this agreement is under review by the
RAs, and CrossRef's counsel will be coordinating input from all the
RAs.The RAWG will be the mechanism for working out interoperability
requirements across the different RAs and to implement comment services,
such as multiple resolution, using the DOI API.

General DOI news and announcements are available at
http://www.doi.org/announce.html NISO News 

NISO and the Sheridan Press have published Metadata Demystified - A Guide
for Publishers (PDF)authored by CrossRef's own Amy Brand, Frank Daly and
Barbara Myers. From the NISO site - "Good metadata helps publishers of
books and journals make the most of their content! Metadata Demystified,
published by NISO and Sheridan Press, explains how and why, reports on
current practices, and links to additional resources." Chuck

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