DOI News - November 2004

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

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DOI News - November 2004

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In this issue:

1. DOI System on track to become an ISO standard
2. OECD's StatLink solution using DOIs for tables of data
3. DOI and license and rights terms
4. DOIs for scientific data - expanding uses

1. DOI System on track to become an ISO standard

At the recent ISO TC46 meeting in Washington, the DOI System was accepted
as a formal work item to become an ISO standard.  This standardisation
will be within TC46/SC9, the ISO body responsible for "information content
identifiers" such as ISBN, ISSN, ISTC, ISRC, etc.

The formal approved resolution reads:

"SC 9 invites the International DOI Foundation to submit a formal proposal
and preliminary draft for an ISO standard on the Digital Object
Identifier. SC 9 further invites the International DOI Foundation to
nominate a Project Leader for this work and authorizes the SC 9
Secretariat to establish a new Working Group for this project if such WG
is deemed necessary after consultation with the Project Leader."

The IDF will be the nominated registration authority for this standard.  
The DOI system uses several existing standards-based components which have
been brought together and further developed to provide a consistent
system: the standardisation within ISO (ISO TC46/SC9) will use these
underlying standards as normative references, and therefore will be a
relatively concise summary. It will: codify a top level description of
components; refer to those components (Syntax, Handle, Data Dictionary)  
as normative references; separate the existing "DOI Handbook" into formal
standard (ISO) and operating manual; provide further assurances to users
on governance and intent through ISO conformance; and show that

DOI supports (does not compete with) other identifier schemes, offering 
the option of adding Internet actionability in a standard way.

For further information please contact n.paskin@doi.org or the 
ISO/TC46/SC9 Secretariat at iso.tc46.sc9@lac-bac.gc.ca

2. OECD's StatLink solution using DOIs for tables of data

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has announced
the use of DOIs at the level of individual tables. OECD's StatLink is an
electronic publishing solution that enables links between publications,
whether they are in print or e-book format, and the underlying data in MS
Excel spreadsheets. StatLink uses DOIs for identifying published material
on line. DOI-based links are added to the charts and tables in OECD books
and e-books: clicking the link at a table downloads a matching Excel
spreadsheet.

For more information, see http://www.oecd.org/statistics/statlink

3. DOI and license and rights terms

The IDF participated in a recent National Information Standards
Organization/Digital Library Federation special meeting on DLF's
Electronic Resource Management Initiative (ERMI) to discuss the results of
the DLF ERMI and to outline possible next steps for stakeholders.  IDF's
focus was on the need for, and availability of, tools for
interoperability. This will be followed up by the NISO/EDItEUR meeting on
electronic communication of license and rights terms as a satellite of the
London Online meeting on Dec 2, at which these tools will be described in
detail.

For further information on ERMI see 
http://www.library.cornell.edu/cts/elicensestudy/home.html

For further information on the Dec meeting in London, see 
http://www.niso.org/pdfs/bici-niso-seminar04.pdf

4. DOIs for scientific data - expanding uses

At the recent international CODATA meeting on "Publication and Citation of
Scientific Data" a number of projects were presented for the use of DOIs
as an interoperable common system for identification of science data. Two
current projects were presented: the TIB project (on citation of primary
data sets) and the Names for Life project (on biological taxonomy). At the
meeting, discussions were also opened as to the use of DOI with the
recently developed IUPAC-NIST Chemical Identifier, and in other projects.

For further information see "Digital Object Identifiers for scientific 
data" at http://www.doi.org/topics/041110CODATAarticleDOI.pdf

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