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Date: Fri, 26 Dec 1997 10:47:34 -0500
From: Lloyd Davidson <Ldavids@NWU.EDU>
Subject: ALA Panel on Digital Object Identifiers (DOI)

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Electronic Publishing/Electronic Journals
LITA Special Interest Group
http://www.lita.org/igs/epej.htm

     Panel Discussion and Business Meeting New Orleans Convention Center
       Rms. 97-98, Monday, January 12, 1998, 8:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

              Document Tracking in an Electronic Universe:
              Description, Applications and Implications of
     Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) and Publisher Item Identifiers (PIIs)

Introduced and moderated by
Kimberly Douglas <kdouglas@caltech.edu>
Director, Sherman Fairchild Library and Technical Information Services
California Institute of Technology

Overview of issues:
   The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) system has been designed to overcome
the impermanence of URLs and to identify and track digital media at any
desired
level of granularity.  The DOI System has been designed by the Association of
American Publishers (AAP), in partnership with the Corporation For National
Research Initiatives (CNRI), to link customers with publishers, facilitate
electronic commerce, and enable copyright management systems.  The DOI
System,
governed by The International DOI Foundation, is now in use by more than a
dozen U.S. and European publishers.  These include Academic Press, Elsevier,
John Wiley & Sons, Houghton Mifflin, Springer-Verlag and Harcourt Brace.
Widespread implementation of this system promises to have a profound effect
on library functions and services, from ILL to online catalogs.

The PII - Or, A funny thing happened on the way to the DOI
Karen Hunter <K.HUNTER@elsevier.com>
Senior Vice President
Elsevier/North-Holland Scientific Publishing Co.

DOI overview: what they are; how they are to be used; and how they work
Ed Pentz <epentz@harcourtbrace.com>
Manager, Electronic Business Development
Academic Press

DOIs as an Internet standard: Update on NISOs DOI working groups
Brian Green <brian@bic.org.uk> and Pat Harris
Managing Agent of Book Industry Communication (BIC)
BIC / EDItEUR

Bringing DOIs into the library:
  DOI implementation in an integrated library system
Cindy Edgington Miller <cindy@endinfosys.com>
Director of Product Strategy
Endeavor Information Systems, Inc.

Implications for library users and library services
Julia C. Blixrud <jblix@arl.org>
Senior Program Officer
Association of Research Libraries

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Useful URLs for understanding digital object identifiers
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Articles about DOIs:

http://www.arl.org/newsltr/194/identifier.html
        Article by Clifford Lynch published in issue 194 of the ARL
newsletter describing in very readable language the background on DOIs and
articulating five issues and concerns regarding their use.
A response by Bill Arms is linked from the end of this article.

http://www.ybp.com/yrm/trialogue/497/497doi.htm
DOI: Darling of Industry or Dead on Impact, Trialogue, no. 4, Spring 1997

http://www.ybp.com/yrm/trialogue/497/497rtsmn.htm
Rights Management in the Digital Age: Trading in Bits, not Atoms, Trialogue,
no. 4, Spring 1997

http://www.scripting.com/seybold/stories/960702.html
        Seybold's commentary is somewhat dated, July 1996, however the issues
he articulates with the implementation of DOIs remain largely unresolved.

http://www.bic.org.uk/bic/bicinfo.html
        This site provides the British perspective and is maintained by
Brian Green, one of the programs speakers, and includes a link to the
article,
"In Search of the Unicorn: the DOI from a user Perspective" by Mark Bide
discussing the methodology behind DOIs with scenarios and discussion.

http://www.bic.org.uk/bic/uniquid
        Article by Brian Green (speaker) and Mark Bide entitled "Unique
identifiers: a brief introduction." Introduces DOI vocabulary and addresses
the shortcomings of legacy object identifiers (ISBN, ISSN, SICI).

http://elsevier.nl/inca/homepage/about/infoident/
        Norman Paskin's article "Information Identifiers," originally published
in Learned Publishing, vol 10, no. 2 pp. 135-157 (April 1997), provides
extensive technical background and assessment of various types of object
identifiers that publishers have explored.

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Publisher Demonstrations and Explanations of their work with DOIs:

http://www.doi.org
       Publisher organized information describing the purpose and progress
of each organization's work in developing DOIs.  There are demos illustrating
different publishers' implementations.

http://www.apnet.com/www/doi
        Academic Press explanation and demonstration of its work with DOIs.
The speaker Ed Pentz, above, is instrumental in this work.

http://www.alcs.co.uk/doidocs/index.htm
       This site is for the Author's Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS)
which has linked the DOI system to a text numbering scheme and embedded the
DOI
in a text watermark using a system developed by the IMPRIMATUR project. This
is done to identify any illegal use of the text.

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Organized by Lloyd Davidson
Head Life Sciences and Access Services and Kaplan Humanities Fellow
Northwestern University
Mudd Library for Science and Engineering
LDavids@nwu.edu

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Life Sciences Librarian and Head, Access Services
Seeley G. Mudd Library for Science and Engineering
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