Lorcan,
A minor error in the URL that you gave, biblink is actually in caps:
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/BIBLINK/
Terry
On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Lorcan Dempsey wrote:
>
> Further to Chris' msg below ...
>
> There is a short article on DOIs in the current issue of Library
> Technology (November 1997) by my colleague Andy Powell.
>
> Identifiers for digital objects
> Collecting numbers
>
> There is a fuller discussion of identifiers (inc DOIs and URNs) in a
> report prepared as part
> of the EU project BIBLINK, which looks at the transfer of metadata between
> publishers of digital objects and national bibliographic agencies. There
> is a link to this from the Biblink page:
>
> http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/biblink/
>
> Lorcan
>
>
>
> On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Mr C A Rusbridge wrote:
>
> > Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 16:38:29 +0000 (GMT)
> > From: Mr C A Rusbridge <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: eLib list <[log in to unmask]>
> > Subject: [FYI] Digital Object Identifier (fwd)
> >
> > Terry Kuny wrote:
> > > To: [log in to unmask]
> > >
> > > Date: Sat, 08 Nov 1997 14:50:46 -0600
> > > From: Ed Summers <[log in to unmask]>
> > > Reply-To: [log in to unmask]
> > > Organization: University of Illinois
> > > Subject: Digital Object Identifier
> > >
> > > I'm not sure if this has been discussed recently on DLIB--but have people
> > > heard about the new Digital Object Identifier System that has been
> > > developed by the
> > > Association of American Publishers and the Corporation for National Research
> > > Initiatives?
> > >
> > > Apparently this new system will facilitate the extension of copyright to the
> > > Internet. The DOI is a unique identifier (similar to an ISBN or ISSN),
> > > which will allow access to documents--even when their URL changes. The DOI
> > > is already
> > > being implemented by many publishers to provide access to electronic journals.
> > >
> > > The International DOI Foundation was recently founded with headquarters in
> > > Geneva and Washington D.C. If this kind of stuff interests you, take a
> > > glance at
> > > their informative web site at: http://www.doi.org
> > >
> > > Ed Summers
> > > University of Illinois.
> > >
> >
> > It is interesting that the DOI is an implementation of the CNRI handle
> > system, which is also one of the candidates for the URN (or Uniform
> > Resource Name, ie independent of actual location), as I understand it.
> >
> > --
> > Chris Rusbridge
> >
> > Programme Director, Electronic Libraries Programme
> > The Library, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
> > Phone 01203 524979 Fax 01203 524981
> > Email [log in to unmask]
>
> Lorcan Dempsey <URL:http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/~lisld/>
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