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These factsheets are concise summaries of key issues of concern t0 the DOI" system user community:
Key Eactson Digital Object Identifier System
Covering status_
scope, origin and purpose of the DOI system; governance and business model; technical infrastructure
and intellectual property considerations.
Designing_DOLApplications
Providing notes and
suggestions on common issues encountered in thinking about how the DOI system can be applied_
DQL- System and Internet Identitier _Specifcations
The DOI System has been developed to ensure conformance with relevant generic external
formal standards which are
relevant in the Internet communities
and W3C) , including URI and URN:
Identifier Interoperability
A discussion of facilitating preservation, re-use and exchange of digital information to enable users t0 re-use identifiers
their associated data) across different applications. Interoperability encompasses the technical
aspects and also
consideration of the purpose and community of use of the identifiers_
The_indecs Framework
The DOI System uses work based on the indecs Framework as the basis for its semantic interoperability model. indecs
provided an analysis of the requirements for metadata for
commerce
intellectual property in the network
environment:
DOLSystem and Standard
dentifier Schemes
A discussion of the relationship between the DOl system and other registries of identifiers
which are compilations of
unique identifiers that have information on each item registered through an organization which maintains it
DOLSystem and the_ Handle_System
The DOI system is an implementation of the Handle System_
which was chosen because
matched the resolution
requirements identified for the DOl concept
DOLResolution Documentation
Technical discussion for software developers on resolving handles using the Proxy Server System, encoding handles
for use in URIs, Proxy Server query parameters and the Proxy Server REST API.
DOL System andthe_ISBN System
The ISBN-A ("the actionable ISBN") is
service powered by DOI;
which an existing ISBN is expressed
the DOI
System:
DOLSystem and Persistent URLS(PURLs)
A comparison of DOI names and PURLs, highlighting the differences in basic
technology and user services_
DOLSystem and QpenURL
discussion of how OpenURL can be used with the DOI system:
DOLFoundation and Topics
The DOI Foundation
actively opting out of the cohort calculations which enable Google-designed technologies known
as Topics, formerly known as Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC)
Updated March 14, 2022
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