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A digital object identifier (DOI) is a character string (a "digital identifier") used to uniquely identify an object such as an electronic document. Metadata about the object is stored in association with the DOI name and this metadata may include a location, such as a URL, where the object can be found. The DOI for a document is permanent, whereas its location and other metadata may change. Referring to an online document by its DOI provides more stable linking than simply referring to it by its URL, because if its URL changes, the publisher need only update the metadata for the DOI to link to the new URL.123 Organizations that meet the contractual obligations of the DOI system and are willing to pay to become a member of the system can assign DOIs.4 The DOI system is implemented through a federation of registration agencies coordinated by the International DOI Foundation,5 which developed and controls the system. The DOI system has been developed and implemented in a range of publishing applications since 2000; by late April 2011 more than 50 million DOI names had been assigned by some 4,000 organizations.6 The DOI system is part of the larger Handle System.7 Contents 1 DOI names 2 Applications 3 Features and benefits 4 Comparison with other identifier schemes 5 Resolution 6 Organizational structure 7 Standardization 8 See also 9 Notes and references 10 External links DOI names A DOI name takes the form of a character string divided into two parts, a prefix and a suffix, separated by a forward slash. The prefix identifies the registrant of the name, and the suffix is chosen by the registrant and identifies the specific object associated with that DOI. Most legal Unicode characters are allowed in these strings, which are interpreted in a case-insensitive manner. For example, in the DOI name 10.1000/182, the prefix is 10.1000 and the suffix is 182. The "10." part of the prefix identifies the DOI registry,8 and the characters 1000 in the prefix identify the registrant; in this case the registrant is the International DOI Foundation itself. 182 is the suffix, or item ID, identifying a single object (in this case, the latest version of the DOI Handbook). Citations using DOI names should be printed as doi:10.1000/182. When the citation is a hypertext link, it is recommended to embed the link as a URL by concatenating "http://dx.doi.org/" to the DOI name, omitting its "doi:" prefix; e.g., the DOI name doi:10.1000/182 is linked as http://dx.doi.org/10.1000/182. This URL provides the location of an HTTP proxy server which will redirect web accesses to the correct online location of the linked item.49 DOI names can identify creative works (such as texts, images, audio or video items, and software) in both electronic and physical forms, performances, and abstract works10 such as licenses, parties to a transaction, etc. The names can refer to objects at varying levels of detail: thus DOI names can identify a journal, an individual issue of a journal, an individual article in the journal, or a single table in that article. The choice of level of detail is left to the assigner, but in the DOI system it must be declared as part of the metadata that is associated to a DOI name, using a data dictionary based on the indecs Content Model. Applications Major applications of the DOI system currently include: persistent citations in scholarly materials (journal articles, books, etc.) through CrossRef, a consortium of around 3,000 publishers; research datasets through DataCite, a consortium of leading research libraries, technical information providers, and scientific data centers; European Union official publications through the EU publications office. In the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's publication service SourceOECD, each table or graph in an OECD publication is shown with a DOI name that leads to an Excel file of data underlying the tables and graphs. Further development of such services is planned.11 A multilingual European DOI registration agency activity, mEDRA, and a Chinese registration agency, Wanfang Data, are active in non-English language markets. Expansion to other sectors is planned by the International DOI Foundation.citation needed Features and benefits The DOI system was designed to provide a form of persistent identification, in which each DOI name unequivocally and permanently identifies the object to which it is associated. And, it associates metadata with objects, allowing it to provide users with relevant pieces of information about the objects and their relationships. Included as part of this metadata are network actions that allow DOI names to be resolved to web locations where the objects they describe can be found. To achieve its goals, the DOI system combines the Handle System and the indecs Content Model with a social infrastructure. The Handle System ensures that the DOI name for an object is not based on any changeable attributes of the object such as its physical location or ownership, that the attributes of the object are encoded in its metadata rather than in its DOI name, and that no two objects are assigned the same DOI name. Because DOI names are short character strings, they are human-readable, may be copied and pasted as text, and fit into the URI specification. The DOI name resolution mechanism acts behind the scenes, so that users communicate with it in the same way as with any other web service; it is built on open architectures, incorporates trust mechanisms, and is engineered to operate reliably and flexibly so that it can be adapted to changing demands and new applications of the DOI system. DOI name resolution may be used with OpenURL to select the most appropriate among multiple locations for a given object, according to the location of the user making the request.12 However, despite this ability, the DOI system has drawn criticism from librarians for directing users to non-free copies of documents that would have been available for no additional fee from alternative locations.13 The indecs Content Model is used within the DOI system to associate metadata with objects. A small kernel of common metadata is shared by all DOI names and can be optionally extended with other relevant data, which may be public or restricted. Registrants may update the metadata for their DOI names at any time, such as when publication information changes or when an object moves to a different URL. The International DOI Foundation (IDF) oversees the integration of these technologies and operation of the system through a technical and social infrastructure. The social infrastructure of a federation of independent registration agencies offering DOI services was modelled on existing successful federated deployments of identifiers such as GS1 and ISBN. Comparison with other identifier schemes A DOI name differs from commonly used Internet pointers to material, such as the Uniform Resource Locator (URL), in that it identifies an object as a first-class entity,clarification needed not simply the place where the object is located. It implements the Uniform Resource Identifier (Uniform Resource Name) concept and adds to it a data model and social infrastructure.14 A DOI name also differs from standard identifier registries such as the ISBN, ISRC, etc. The purpose of an identifier registry is to manage a given collection of identifiers, whereas the primary purpose of the DOI system is to make a collection of identifiers actionable and interoperable, where that collection can include identifiers from many other controlled collections.15 The DOI system offers persistent, semantically interoperable resolution to related current data, and is best suited to material that will be used in services outside the direct control of the issuing assigner (e.g., public citation, or managing content of value). It uses a managed registry (providing social and technical infrastructure). It does not assume any specific business model for the provision of identifiers or services, and enables other existing services to link to it in defined ways. Several approaches for making identifiers persistent have been proposed. The comparison of persistent identifier approaches is difficult because they are not all doing the same thing. Imprecisely referring to a set of schemes as "identifiers" doesn't mean that they can be compared easily. Other "identifier systems" may be enabling technologies with low barriers to entry, providing an easy to use labeling mechanism that allows anyone to set up a new instance (examples include Persistent Uniform Resource Locator (PURL), URLs, Globally Unique Identifiers (GUIDs), etc.), but may lack some of the functionality of a registry-controlled scheme and will usually lack accompanying metadata in a controlled scheme. The DOI system does not have this approach and should not be compared directly to such identifier schemes. Various applications using such enabling technologies with added features have been devised that meet some of the features offered by the DOI system for specific sectors (e.g., ARK). A DOI name does not depend on the object's location and, in this way, is similar to a Uniform Resource Name (URN) or PURL but differs from an ordinary URL. URLs are often used as substitute identifiers for documents on the Internet (better characterised as Uniform Resource Identifiers) although the same document at two different locations has two URLs. By contrast, persistent identifiers such as DOI names identify objects as first class entities: two instances of the same object would have the same DOI name. Resolution DOI name resolution is provided through the Handle System, developed by Corporation for National Research Initiatives, and is freely available to any user encountering a DOI name. Resolution redirects the user from a DOI name to one or more pieces of typed data: URLs representing instances of the object, services such as e-mail, or one or more items of metadata. To the Handle System, a DOI name is a handle, and so has a set of values assigned to it and may be thought of as a record that consists of a group of fields. Each handle value must have a data type specified in its "<type>" field, that defines the syntax and semantics of its data. To resolve a DOI name, it may be input to a DOI resolver (e.g., at www.doi.org) or may be represented as an HTTP string by preceding the DOI name by the string http://dx.doi.org/ For example, the DOI name 10.1000/182 can be resolved at the address "http://dx.doi.org/10.1000/182". Web pages or other hypertext documents can include hypertext links in this form. Some browsers allow the direct resolution of a DOI (or other handles) with an add-on, e.g., CNRI Handle Extension for Firefox. The CNRI Handle Extension for Firefox enables the browser to access handle or DOI URIs like hdl:4263537/4000 or doi:10.1000/1 using the native Handle System protocol. It will even replace references to web-to-handle proxy servers with native resolution. Organizational structure The International DOI Foundation (IDF), a non-profit organisation created in 1998, is the governance body of the DOI system.16 It safeguards all intellectual property rights relating to the DOI system, manages common operational features, and supports the development and promotion of the DOI system. The IDF ensures that any improvements made to the DOI system (including creation, maintenance, registration, resolution and policymaking of DOI names) are available to any DOI registrant. It also prevents third parties from imposing additional licensing requirements beyond those of the IDF on users of the DOI system. The IDF is controlled by a Board elected by the members of the Foundation, with an appointed Managing Agent who is responsible for co-ordinating and planning its activities. Membership is open to all organizations with an interest in electronic publishing and related enabling technologies. The IDF holds annual open meetings on the topics of DOI and related issues: the 2010 meeting is provisionally scheduled to be held in Hannover, Germany in mid year. Registration agencies, appointed by the IDF, provide services to DOI registrants: they allocate DOI prefixes, register DOI names, and provide the necessary infrastructure to allow registrants to declare and maintain metadata and state data. Registration agencies are also expected to actively promote the widespread adoption of the DOI system, to cooperate with the IDF in the development of the DOI system as a whole, and to provide services on behalf of their specific user community. A list of current RAs is maintained by the International DOI Foundation. Registration agencies generally charge a fee to assign a new DOI name; parts of these fees are used to support the IDF. The DOI system overall, through the IDF, operates on a not-for-profit cost recovery basis. Standardization The DOI system is currently being standardised through the International Organization for Standardization, in its technical committee on identification and description TC46/SC9. The Draft International Standard ISO/DIS 26324, Information and documentation - Digital Object Identifier System met the ISO requirements for approval. The relevant ISO Working Group had later submitted an edited version to ISO for distribution as an FDIS (Final Draft International Standard) ballot,17 which was approved by 100% of those voting in a ballot closing on November 15, 2010.18 DOI is a registered URI under the infoURI 19 specification (IETF RFC4452), "The "info" URI Scheme for Information Assets with Identifiers in Public Namespaces".20 info:doi/ is the infoURI Namespace of Digital Object Identifiers. The DOI syntax is a NISO standard, first standardised in 2000, ANSI/NISO Z39.84-2005 Syntax for the Digital Object Identifier.21 See also Digital identity Object identifier Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) Metadata standards Publisher Item Identifier (PII) Permalink Persistent Uniform Resource Locator Notes and references ^ Witten, Ian H., David Bainbridge and David M. Nichols (2010). How to Build a Digital Library (2nd ed.). Amsterdam; Boston: Morgan Kaufmann. pp. 352–253. ISBN 978-0-12-374857-7.  ^ Langston, Marc; Tyler, James (2004). "Linking to journal articles in an online teaching environment: The persistent link, DOI, and OpenURL". The Internet and Higher Education 7 (1): 51–58. doi:10.1016/j.iheduc.2003.11.004.  ^ "How the 'Digital Object Identifier' works". BusinessWeek (BusinessWeek). 2001-07-23. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/01_30/b3742032.htm. Retrieved 2010-04-20. "Assuming the publishers do their job of maintaining the databases, these centralized references, unlike current Web links, should never become outdated or broken."  ^ a b Davidson, Lloyd A.; Douglas, Kimberly (December 1998). "Digital Object Identifiers: Promise and problems for scholarly publishing". Journal of Electronic Publishing 4 (2). doi:10.3998/3336451.0004.203.  ^ "Welcome to the DOI System". Doi.org. 2010-06-28. http://www.doi.org/index.html. Retrieved 2010-08-07.  ^ "DOI® News, April 2011: 1. DOI System exceeds 50 million assigned identifiers". Doi.org. 2011-04-20. http://www.doi.org/news/DOINewsApr11.html#1. Retrieved 2011-07-03.  ^ "The Handle System". http://handle.net/.  ^ Other registries are identified by other strings at the start of the prefix. Handle names that begin with "100." are also in use, as for example in the following citation: Hammond, Joseph L., Jr.; Brown, James E.; Liu, Shyan-Shiang S. (May 1975). Development of a Transmission Error Model and an Error Control Model. hdl:100.2/ADA013939. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA013939. . ^ Powell, Andy (June 1998). "Resolving DOI Based URNs Using Squid: An Experimental System at UKOLN". D-Lib Magazine. ISSN 1082-9873. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june98/06powell.html.  ^ Frequently asked questions about the DOI system: 2. What can be identified by a DOI name?. International DOI Foundation. Updated 17 February 2010. http://www.doi.org/faq.html#1. Retrieved 23 April 2010.  ^ Green, T. (2009). "We Need Publishing Standards for Datasets and Data Tables". Research Information. doi:10.1787/603233448430.  ^ DeRisi, Susanne; Kennison, Rebecca; Twyman, Nick (2003). "Editorial: The what and whys of DOIs". PLoS Biology 1 (2): e57. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0000057. PMC 261894. PMID 14624257. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=261894.  ^ Franklin, Jack (2003). "Open access to scientific and technical information: the state of the art". In Grüttemeier, Herbert; Mahon, Barry. Open access to scientific and technical information: state of the art and future trends. IOS Press. p. 74. ISBN 9781586033774. http://books.google.com/?id=2X3gW1lUvN4C&pg=PA74#v=onepage&q.  ^ "DOI System and Internet Identifier Specifications". Doi.org. 2010-05-18. http://www.doi.org/factsheets/DOIIdentifierSpecs.html. Retrieved 2010-08-07.  ^ "DOI System and standard identifier registries". Doi.org. http://www.doi.org/factsheets/DOIIdentifiers.html. Retrieved 2010-08-07.  ^ "DOI Handbook, Chapter 7: The International DOI Foundation". Doi.org. 1997-10-10. http://www.doi.org/handbook_2000/governance.html. Retrieved 2010-08-07.  ^ "about_the_doi.html DOI Standards and Specifications". Doi.org. 2010-06-28. http://www.doi.org/about_the_doi.html#TC46. Retrieved 2010-08-07.  ^ "Overviews & Standards - Standards and Specifications: 1. ISO TC46/SC9 Standards". Doi.org. 2010-11-18. http://www.doi.org/about_the_doi.html#TC46. Retrieved 2011-07-03.  ^ "About "info" URIs - Frequently Asked Questions". Info-uri.info. http://info-uri.info/registry/docs/misc/faq.html. Retrieved 2010-08-07.  ^ "The "info" URI Scheme for Information Assets with Identifiers in Public Namespaces". http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4452.txt. Retrieved 2010-08-07.  ^ "ANSI/NISO Z39.84-2000 Syntax for the Digital Object Identifier". Techstreet.com. http://www.techstreet.com/standards/NISO/Z39_84_2005?product_id=1262088. Retrieved 2010-08-07.  External links Official website Factsheet: DOI System and Internet Identifier Specifications The Handle System DOI-Registration agency for data List of active DOI prefixes v t e International standard numbers and codes Standards     ISO 2108: International Standard Book Number (ISBN) ISO 3297: International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) ISO 3901: International Standard Recording Code (ISRC) ISO 10957: International Standard Music Number (ISMN) ISO 15706: International Standard Audiovisual Number (ISAN) ISO 15707: International Standard Musical Work Code (ISWC) ISO 21047: International Standard Text Code (ISTC) Draft ISO 26324: Digital Object Identifier System (DOI) Draft ISO 27729: International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) v t e ISO standards Lists List of ISO standards List of ISO romanizations List of IEC standards Categories Category:ISO standards Category:OSI protocols 1–9999 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 16 31 -0 -1 -2 -3 -4 -5 -6 -7 -8 -9 -10 -11 -12 -13 128 216 217 226 228 233 259 269 302 306 428 518 519 639 -1 -2 -3 -5 -6 646 690 732 764 843 898 1000 1004 1007 1073-1 1413 1538 1745 2014 2015 2022 2108 2145 2146 2240 2281 2709 2711 2788 2852 3029 3103 3166 -1 -2 -3 3297 3307 3602 3864 3901 3977 4031 4157 4217 5218 5775 5776 5800 5964 6166 6344 6346 6425 6429 6438 6523 6709 7001 7002 7098 7185 7200 7498 7736 7810 7811 7812 7813 7816 8000 8178 8217 8571 8583 8601 8632 8652 8691 8807 8820-5 8859 -1 -2 -3 -4 -5 -6 -7 -8 -9 -10 -11 -12 -13 -14 -15 -16 8879 9000/9001 9075 9126 9293 9241 9362 9407 9506 9529 9564 9594 9660 9897 9945 9984 9985 9995 10000–19999 10006 10118-3 10160 10161 10165 10179 10206 10218 10303 -11 -21 -22 -28 -238 10383 10487 10585 10589 10646 10664 10746 10861 10957 10962 10967 11073 11170 11179 11404 11544 11783 11784 11785 11801 11898 11940 11941 11941 (TR) 11992 12006 12182 12207 12234-2 13211 -1 -2 13216 13250 13399 13406-2 13407 13450 13485 13490 13567 13568 13584 13616 14000 14031 14396 14443 14496 -10 -14 14644 -1 -2 -3 -4 -5 -6 -7 -8 -9 14649 14651 14698 -2 14750 14882 14971 15022 15189 15288 15291 15292 15408 15444 15445 15438 15504 15511 15686 15693 15706 -2 15707 15897 15919 15924 15926 15926 WIP 15930 16023 16262 16750 17024 17025 17369 17799 18000 18004 18014 18245 18629 18916 19005 19011 19092 -1 -2 19114 19115 19125 19136 19439 19501:2005 19752 19757 19770 19775-1 19794-5 20000+ 20000 20022 21000 21047 21827:2002 22000 23270 23360 24613 24707 25178 26000 26300 26324 27000 series 27000 27001 27002 27003 27004 27005 27006 27007 27729 27799 28000 29110 29199-2 29500 31000 32000 38500 42010 80000 See also All articles with prefix "ISO"