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Friday, 27 June 2008
The June 2008 edition of DOI News was made available and mailed to the DOI News subscribers.
Monday, 23 June 2008
Presentations from the 2008 Annual Open Meeting: Resource Access for a Digital World are available for viewing and download.
Thursday, 6 March 2008
The IDF announced the 2008 Annual Open Meeting: Resource Access for a Digital World, 17 June 2008, Offices of the European Union, Brussels, Belgium, 8.30 - 12.30. Pre-registration required.
Wednesday, 12 December 2007
The December 2007 edition of DOI News was made available and mailed to the DOI News subscribers.
Wednesday, 12 December 2007
The DOI System Overview slide presentation was updated and revised.
Wednesday, 12 December 2007
A set of PPT presentations forming the basis for a DOI Workshop, including briefings on DOI Data Model, Resolution, Social Infrastructure and Syntax, has been prepared.
Monday, 6 August 2007
An article on the DOI System, prepared for the third edition of the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, was added to the Overviews.
Monday, 2 July 2007
The July 2007 edition of DOI News was made available and mailed to the DOI News subscribers.
Monday, 2 July 2007
Presentations from the June 21st IDF Open Meeting: "Innovative uses of the DOI System", are now available. Presentations from the follow-on Handle System Workshop have also been posted, and information from the related meeting, "The Changing Standards Landscape: Creative Solutions to Your Information Problems", BISG/NISO Forum, can be found at the BISG website.
Wednesday, 27 June 2007
Links to two podcasts of interviews by Jon Udell: "Winning the Battle Against Linkrot" with Geoffrey Bilder, Director of Strategic Initiatives, CrossRef, and "A conversation with Tony Hammond about digital object identifiers", with Tony Hammond of Nature Publishing Group, can be found under Recent Press Coverage.
Thursday, 22 March 2007
The IDF announced a series of meetings to be held in Washington, DC, in June 2007, in coordination with ALA, NISO/BISG and other meetings being held at that time. Details will be announced as soon as they become available.
Thursday, 22 March 2007
The March 2007 DOI News was issued covering "Chinese DOI Agency launched", "DOI Foundation participating in licensing standard activities", and "IDF meetings to be held in June".
Monday, 19 March 2007
The IDF issued a press release announcing Wanfang Data Co, Ltd. as the first Chinese DOI Registration Agency.
Monday, 19 February 2007
Presentations from ITU Telecommunications Standardization Sector Focus Group on Identity Management, Geneva, 13-16 February 2007 were added to the site. See See Content Industry Standards Activities Overview & Presentation, and Handle System Overview & Presentation.
Monday, 2 October 2006
Links to two papers, "Naming and Meaning: key to the management of intellectual property in digital media" and "Naming and Meaning of Digital Objects", were added to Publications on the News & Events page.
Wednesday, 20 September 2006
The IDF announced two new Board members: Publishers Licensing Society and TIB, German National Library of Science and Technology. (See IDF Member List)
Wednesday, 20 September 2006
Wanfang Data Co., Ltd. became a member of the International DOI Foundation.
Friday, 15 September 2006
Version 4.4 of the DOI Handbook was released.
Monday, 14 August 2006
A new entry was made in the FAQ list: Is there a master database of DOI-assigned content that is searchable across all registration agencies?.
Tuesday, 26 July 2006
The July 2006 DOI News was issued covering: "Presentations available from "Digital objects and the management of information" seminar ", "MVB and MEDRA partner to extend DOI registration in German language areas", "CrossRef surpasses 20 million DOI® names", and "CrossRef register over half a million book DOI® names".
Wednesday, 10 May 2006
A link to a new tool was added to the list of DOI Tools: Custom search button for Google's Toolbar that use the DOI Proxy to fetch documents.
Wednesday, 10 May 2006
CrossRef issued a Press Release: "Over Half a Million Book DOIs Now Registered in CrossRef".
Wednesday, 10 May 2006
A Press Release was issued by mEDRA and MVB: "MVB and mEDRA announce partnership for providing DOI registration in German-speaking countries".
Thursday, 4 May 2006
Version 4.3 of the DOI Handbook was released.
Tuesday, 18 April 2006
A link to the ISO Data Dictionary was added.
Tuesday, 18 April 2006
The IDF issued a Press Release: "ISO/IEC 21000-6 (MPEG-21 Rights Data Dictionary) launched".
Tuesday, 18 April 2006
The April 2006 DOI News was issued covering: "ISO/IEC 21000-6 (MPEG-21 Rights Data Dictionary) launched", "Identifier interoperability: A report on two recent ISO activities", and "CrossRef launches free-text service to find DOI names".
Wednesday, 7 December 2005
A link to a press release from CrossRef, "CrossRef Web Services and Search Partner Program Enhance Web Searching for Scholarly Content" was added to Reviews.
Wednesday, 16 November 2005
DOI News, November 2005 was send to the DOI News mailing list and added to the site.
Wednesday, 16 November 2005
A press release from Neilsen BookData, "Nielsen BookData ensures continuation of DOI services - demonstrates benefits of system backed by a social infrastructure", was added to the list of recent press coverage.
Wednesday, 16 November 2005
An IDF Press Release , "International DOI Foundation and CDI agree a constructive dis-engagement of CDI from the IDF", was added to News & Reviews.
Thursday, 20 October 2005
A copy of Norman Paskin's presentation from "Electronic Publishing, Digital Archiving and Licensing", a Joint Workshop from EDItEUR and AKEP, 20 October 2005, Frankfurt Book Fair, "Structured management of digital content and licenses" was added to the site
Tuesday, 18 October 2005
A copy of a presentation given by Angela D'Agostino at the Frankfurt 27th International Supply Chain Specialists Meeting, "The DOI in Mainstream Publishing", was added to the site in a new "Events and Presentations" section of the Reviews page.
Monday, 17 October 2005
A link to Information World Review, "Resolution to Persistence" by Tracey Caldwell. IWR, October 2005, Issue 217, pp. 20-21. Includes section on cross-publisher linking mentioning CrossRef and DOI, available via free subscription from IWR, was added to Reviews.
Monday, 17 October 2005
A link to Information Standards Quarterly (ISQ), "Understanding the OpenURL Framework" by Cynthia Hodgson. NISO, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 1-4. Includes section "Integration with DOI", available via subscription from NISO, was added to Reviews.
Monday, 10 October 2005
A press release from digilibri, Arnoud de Kemp & Ingrid Maria Spakler, "Professional Internet marketplace for digital images and texts exhibits at the Book Fair", Frankfurt Book Fair, October 10, 2005, was added to Reviews.
Thursday, 15 September 2005
The IDF News Release, September 2005 "International DOI Foundation adopts policy on patents to foster wide distribution and use of DOIs" was added to the site.
Thursday, 15 September 2005
The IDF sent a September 2005 DOI News covering the topics: "IDF mandates social infrastructure to ensure persistence", "IDF develops policy commitment on patents", "CrossRef deploys OpenURL resolver", "Connotea can now bookmark DOIs natively", "DOIs and Deeplinked E-Reserves: Innovative Links for the Future", and"Seminar on Electronic publishing, Digital archiving and Licensing".
Tuesday, 28 June 2005
The IDF sent a June 2005 DOI News covering the topics: "DOIs for Science Data -- latest developments", "MarketLinks: "Bringing the DOI into the book publishing mainstream", "digilibri: DOIs for image content", "Annual IDF Members' meeting: "Value added", "IDF participates in Internet governance forum", and "Handle System available for Grid applications".
Thursday, 2 June 2005
A new Factsheet, "Value Added by the DOI System", was added to the site.
Monday, 2 May 2005
TIB (German National Library of Science and Technology) was appointed new DOI Registration Agency.
Thursday, 14 April 2005
A link to a Press Release from BISG, 14 April 2005, "Breakthrough Roadmap of Identifiers Pulls the Pieces Together", Book Industry Study Group, was added to Reviews.
Wednesday, 13 April 2005
The IDF sent a April 2005 DOI News covering the topics: New agency - DOIs for scientific data, DOI and Google, Revision of NISO standard: DOI Syntax, IDF appointed as Registration Authority for MPEG Data Dictionary, IDF announces strategic review, and DOI and license terms: ONIX.
Wednesday, 16 March 2005
A quote from EDUPAGE, "STUDY SHOWS ONLINE CITATIONS DON'T AGE WELL" , was added to Quotes & Notes.
Tuesday, 15 March 2005
A link to a CDI Press Release, 15 March 2005, "McGraw-Hill's New Digital Engineering Library Offers Pinpoint Access to Information With 'Super URLs'". Content Directions, Inc., was added to Reviews.
Monday, 14 February 2005
A link to an illustration of the DOI resolution process was added to the Overviews page.
Monday, 14 February 2005
A copy of a paper to be published in a forthcoming issue of Data Science Journal, by Norman Paskin, "Digital Object Identifiers for scientific data", was added to the site.
Monday, 7 February 2005
Suggestions for working on a practical development to use DOI was added to the Frequently Asked Questions.
Friday, 4 February 2005
Version 4.2 of the DOI Handbook was released.
Wednesday, 2 February 2005
A comparison of DOI to other common identifier strings for intellectual property was added to the Frequently Asked Questions.
Wednesday, 22 December 2004
A link to "DOI: Slow But Steady Wns the Race?". The Seybold Report, Vol. 4, No. 18, Dec 22, 2004. (Available by subscription only. Local reprint available here with permission.) was added to the site.
Monday, 22 November 2004
The IDF sent a November 2004 DOI News covering the topics: DOI System on track to become an ISO standard; OECD's StatLink solution using DOIs for tables of data; DOI and license and rights terms; DOIs for scientific data - expanding uses.
Monday, 22 November 2004
A new section of technical information about the DOI Proxy Server was added to the site.
Tuesday, 16 November 2004
Version 4.1 of the DOI Handbook was released.
Tuesday, 16 November 2004
An updated version of the Introductory Overview was published.
Monday, 8 November 2004
A paper presented by Norman Paskin, "Digital Object Identifiers for scientific data" at 19th International CODATA Conference, Berlin, 10 November 2004 and the accompanying presentation was added to the site.
Tuesday, 4 October 2004
The IDF sent an October 2004 DOI News covering the topics: IDF re-affirms DOI as an open specification ; National Libraries now represented on IDF Board; White Paper on business case for DOIs in Content Distribution; DOI in use with RSS Newsfeeds.
Friday, 20 August 2004
A link to "The International DOI Foundation: A Persistent Organisation Supporting a Persistent Identifier" by Cynthia Hodgson, ISQ Editor, in NISO's Information Standards Quarterly, July 2004, pg. 6. was added to News & Events.
Monday, 16 August 2004
A link to a CDI Press Release, 5 August, "Greenwood Publishing, Impressions, and Content Directions to Boost Book Discoverability via Digital Object Identifiers" was added to Reviews.
Thursday, 5 August 2004
A link to a CDI Press Release, 5 August, "EPS Releases White Paper Documenting the Business Case for Digital Object Identifiers in Content Distribution" was added to Reviews.
Tuesday, 4 August 2004
The IDF sent an August 2004 DOI News covering the topics: DOIs to be assigned to all European Union Publications; International publishers call for adoption of DOI; New pricing model with free assignment of DOIs; New DOI applications; New DOI presentations available.
Tuesday, 2 August 2004
The IDF issued a news release announcing the appointment of OPOCE as a Registration Agency.
Tuesday, 13 July 2004
A new version of the Slide Presentation on DOI was added to the Overviews.
Tuesday, 13 July 2004
The Information Kit was updated to include addtional factsheets and the most recent DOI News reports.
Thursday, 8 July 2004
A fifth Factsheet, "DOI and Internet Identifier Specifications", was added to the site.
Thursday, 8 July 2004
Several recent quotes about the DOI and identifier systems were added to the Reviews page.
Wednesday, 7 July 2004
The DOI Introductory Overview was revised.
Tuesday, 29 June 2004
Presentations from the annual IDF Members Meeting were posted to the site, along with a presentation given at the DOI Interoperability Workshop at ERPANET.
Tuesday, 15 June 2004
A link to a TSO Press Release, 15 June, "Free Digital Object Identifiers Pave Way to Link Public Information" was added to Reviews.
Thursday, 3 June 2004
A link to a press release from CONTECS:DD Consortium, "The CONTECS:DD consortium welcome the publication by ISO of the MPEG Rights Data Dictionary standard, ISO/IEC 21000-6", published 3 June 2004, was added to the web site.
Friday, 14 May 2004
A link to a press release from Infotrieve "OpenURL Implementation by Infotrieve Highlights Growing Value of Digital Object Identifiers Standards Initiative" was added to the web site.
Thursday, 13 May 2004
A new general slide presentation on DOIs and the DOI system was added to the "DOI System" section of Overviews, and a slide presentation on Persistent Identifiers was added to the list of material under "Related Technologies".
Friday, 7 May 2004
A new factsheet "DOI Applications" was added to the web site.
 
Updated 30 June 2008

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