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
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Lorcan Dempsey <URL:http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/~lisld/>
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