[seek-taxon] FW: [News] DOI News - June 2005
Bob Morris
ram at cs.umb.edu
Wed Jun 29 05:00:22 PDT 2005
On a quick read, I found the only interesting part of this the claim in
Section 5 that they had a "forward pointing trail" mechanism. I would
like to see more about that, as it seems to be the only thing that would
distinguish the use of DOI from any other GUID with suitable resolution
mechanism. It also smells like it violates opacity, and possibly depends
on mandatory use of the scheme being adopted by each Code of
Nomenclature, otherwise their "trail" will not go through all taxon
concepts that synonomized the first one registered, but only through the
registered ones. For retrospective DOI assignment, there is a big
problem: if the registrants miss a synonym along the way because they
don't have access to \all/ the publication history of a current name,
they might not be able to fix the "trail" to go through a subsequently
recovered name.
Maybe I am missing something. I couldn't see anything in the reference
titles that suggests where I should look for more insight. Suggestions?
[I also have a somewhat non-scholarly gut skepticism about papers with
almost half the citiations being to creations of the author. I should
get over that, especially since for standards it is usually the case
that the most used one is the best one, so it doesn't matter that much
whether DOIs or LSIDs win for taxonomy, or indeed whether both succeed
and you need to look in two registries. Of course, that might yield
different, conflicting, history of a name, but, hey, what else is new?]
Bob Morris
Beach, James H wrote:
>
> FYI
>
> DOIs being used for Data sets in Germany, and in Names4Life.
>
> "The IDF also welcomes a new General member, Names 4 Life, who intend to
> use DOIs in a semantic resolution service for the life sciences."
>
> _____________________________
> James H. Beach
> Biodiversity Research Center
> University of Kansas
> 1345 Jayhawk Boulevard
> Lawrence, KS 66045, USA
> T 785 864-4645, F 785 864-5335
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel Baron [mailto:jbaron at knowledgesolutions.us]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 12:46 PM
> To: Beach, James H
> Subject: FW: [News] DOI News - June 2005
>
> See the info on "Names4Life" below. J
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: news-admin at doi.org [mailto:news-admin at doi.org] On Behalf Of
> International DOI Foundation
> Sent: Tuesday, 28 June 2005 13:32
> To: news at doi.org
> Subject: [News] DOI News - June 2005
>
> DOI News - June 2005
>
> DOI News is a public news release; information contained within this
> newsletter can be reproduced and disseminated to all interested parties.
>
> In this issue:
>
> 1. DOIs for Science Data -- latest developments 2. MarketLinks:
> "Bringing the DOI into the book publishing mainstream"
> 3. digilibri: DOIs for image content
> 4. Annual IDF Members' meeting: "Value added"
> 5. IDF participates in Internet governance forum 6. Handle System
> available for Grid applications
>
>
> 1. DOIs for Science Data -- latest developments
>
> From 1st May 2005, the International DOI Foundation welcomes our newest
> Registration Agency, the German National Library of Science and
> Technology (TIB), the world's largest library of science and technology.
>
> TIB has been a member of the IDF since 2003 and now moves to
> Registration Agency status with an initial 200,000 datasets already
> registered and an expected 1million by the end of the year; and the aim
> of widening the coverage in 2006, to become the registrant for any
> scientific content that is a result of community funded research.
>
> The IDF also welcomes a new General member, Names 4 Life, who intend to
> use DOIs in a semantic resolution service for the life sciences.
> Scientific users will also be interested in the related news item 6
> below, "Handle System available for Grid applications".
>
> For further information see:
>
> o TIB Press Release (http://www.doi.org/news/TIBNews-050405.html) and
> examples from TIB on the demonstrations section of the DOI web site.
> (http://www.doi.org/demos.html)
>
> o Article "Digital Object Identifiers for scientific data". Data
> Science Journal, Vol. 4, 18 March 2005.
> (http://www.doi.org/topics/050210CODATAarticleDSJ.pdf)
>
> 2. MarketLinks: "Bringing the DOI into the book publishing mainstream"
>
> At the recent Book Expo America, R.R. Bowker introduced its DOI
> registration and application services under the name Marketlinks.
> Working with Content Directions Inc, Bowker's DOI-based applications
> focus on extending book publishers' online marketing strategies. The
> DOI becomes a new core element of the 133-year old "Books in Print"
> publisher and ISBN agency's role as bibliographic publisher and
> marketing and transaction services provider. Publishers already provide
> ongoing streams of metadata to the Bowker "Books in Print" database: an
> optional DOI prefix will now become an automatic opt-in within the
> process of ISBN registration. Commenting on the announcement, the
> research service EPS characterised the development as "bringing the DOI
> into the book publishing mainstream... Despite earlier evidence of DOI
> effectiveness, the book industry has shown characteristic caution in
> adopting it as a linking standard. Now, integrated with the industry's
> core identification system, an inflection point should be near".
>
> For further information see:
>
> o R.R.Bowker Press Release.
> (http://www.contentdirections.com/materials/PressReleases/PRESSRELEASE-B
> owke
> r.doc)
>
>
> o EPS Insights 7 June: Bringing the DOI into the book publishing
> mainstream (with links to EPS White papers on "Economic Benefits of the
> DOI in Content Marketing").
> (http://www.doi.org/topics/EPSInsights-7June2005-Bowker.pdf)
>
> 3. digilibri: DOIs for image content
>
> The DOI Registration Agency mEDRA has announced a partnership program
> with digilibri GbR (Germany) for the provision of DOI services in
> Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Digilibri, a new digital content
> asset management company, will serve as the licensing, marketing and
> service partner for publishers, online services, news agencies,
> photographers, illustrators, authors, editors, libraries, and galleries
> in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Technical service and further
> developments will be provided by mEDRA. Digilibri is pioneering the
> development of metadata and identifier assignment to digital images and
> other forms of content.
>
> For further information, see:
>
> o mEDRA and digilibri Press Release.
> (http://www.doi.org/news/0506medradigilibri.html)
>
> 4. Annual IDF Members' meeting: "Value added"
>
> The Annual IDF Members' Meeting was held on 14th June in Bologna, Italy.
>
> As usual, about half the participants were non-members, some attending
> for the first time, and the meeting focused mainly on applications and
> updates on progress. This year's theme was the value added by the DOI,
> with a focus on two areas: a strategy review to determine the best
> structure for the IDF in its next phase of growth, moving from a
> member-supporting structure to an "operating federation" of Registration
> Agencies; and the consolidation of the full DOI implementation (using
> multiple resolution and a managed metadata component) through
> standardization and related matter such as a patent policy. Underlying
> these developments is the value which the DOI brings to applications,
> now reflected in a new DOI factsheet "Value Added by the DOI System".
>
> Presentations also included selected uses of DOI including the TIB DOI
> Registration agency for scientific primary data (see #1 above); The
> Publications Office of the EC (OPOCE); OECD use of DOIs with the aim of
> each table or graph in an OECD publication containing a DOI leading to
> an Excel file of data underlying the tables & graphs. A panel session
> discussed a number of further potential types of applications and was
> followed by a discussion on the need for, and use of, persistent
> identifiers in licensing.
>
> For further information, see:
>
> o Summary of IDF Annual Meeting 2005, and Presentations from this
> meeting.
> (http://www.doi.org/doi_presentations/members_meeting_2005/agenda.html)
>
> o New DOI factsheet: "Value Added by the DOI System".
> (http://www.doi.org/factsheets/DOIValueAdded.html)
>
> 5. IDF participates in internet governance forum
>
> IDF Director Norman Paskin participated in an invitation-only seminar,
> as input for the World Summit on the Information Society, on Internet
> governance, and presented "Two practical examples of issues in Internet
> governance" which underlie the DOI effort: Naming Objects, and
> Specifying What is Named. In a separate summarising contribution, K.N.
> Cukier of the Economist noted that "Allowing for alternative addressing
> and navigation across the network, alongside a sanctioned 'legacy' DNS,
> will be a balanced way to achieve diversity, experimentation and
> progress, while also ensuring stability and reliability."
>
> For further information see:
>
> o "Two practical examples of issues in Internet governance". Paper
> presented 6 May 2005 at the Internet Governance Forum, Oxford Internet
> Institute. (http://www.doi.org/topics/050504OIIDiscussionForum.pdf)
>
> o Full position papers from the Forum.
> (http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/collaboration/specialevents/20050505_governance
> _pos
> ition_papers.pdf)
>
>
> o Quote from Kenneth Neil Cukier (Technology Correspondent, The
> Economist). (http://www.doi.org/recent_press.html#quotes)
>
> 6. Handle System available for Grid applications
>
> The Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), developer of
> the Handle System technology used to provide DOI resolution, released on
> 29 April a Handle System Public License (HSPL v6.1) and Service
> Agreement in coordination with the GRID Globus Alliance. Handle
> technology is made available under this public license as part of the
> Globus Toolkit release 4.0, an open source software toolkit used for
> building grids (advanced resource-sharing computing). The IDF welcomed
> this announcement which continues CNRI's aim of encouraging wider use of
> the Handle System and builds on the current position enjoyed by IDF RAs
> as users of licensed Handle technology.
>
> For further information see:
>
> o Factsheet: "DOI and Handle".
> (http://www.doi.org/factsheets/DOIHandle.html)
>
> o CNRI Handle web site. (http://www.handle.net/)
>
> o Globus Toolkit. (http://www.globus.org/toolkit/)
>
>
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