- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 15:09:07 +0100
- To: Tony Hammond <t.hammond@nature.com>
- Cc: Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>, Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
Tony Hammond wrote: > Hi Karl: > > Just to clarify about DOI, this passage (below) from the IDF home page > (http://www.doi.org/). DOI's are used to identify and manage (on a digital > network) entities of significance within IPR transactions. There is no > restriction that the resource be digital (whether online or not), although > even the online resources can go back aways. Oldest DOI registered with > CrossRef is from 1769: > > http://www.crossref.org/crweblog/2006/09/oldest_doi_in_crossref.html > > Scope of DOI is also unbounded and increasingly they are being applied to > datasets as well as publications. http://www.doi.org/handbook_2000/registration_agencies.html#8.8 reminds me that it costs money to be able to assign DOIs. If I'm an end-user of DOIs, will my DOI metadata be available to the world thru DOI/IDF in perpetuity, regardless of the success/failure of any intermediary businesses who sold me my DOIs? Dan
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