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DOI Resolution Outage on April 27, 2017
IDF regrets that DOls were unresolvable for clients using
small number of DNS services around the world for about three
hours on April 27th, including some in the UK. This was due to incorrect configuration settings that Ied some DNS servers
conclude that dxdoi.org was unavailable even though
was online_
We apologise for any inconvenience caused. Safeguards
have been put in place to prevent this situation from happening again:
you would like more details on this incident please
send
request by email to contact@doi Org_
DOI Foundation Announces Staffing Changes
The IDF announced changes for 2016, with an expansion of its management team:
Two new part time roles were announced_
Jonathan Clark was appointed as the Managing Agent reporting to the Board
with overall responsibility for the DOI System
including its existing network of Registration Agencies, development and outreach, and Paul Jessop took
new role as
Technology Advisor; with
special focus on
development and strengthening of the DOI's existing Internet and metadata
technologies
technical
standards
and interaction with other related systems and communities_
Read more about these
changes and about the new members of the team in the News Release:
Additionally; it is with great regret that we note the passing on March 27, 2016 of Dr: Norman Paskin, who had stepped down
as Managing Agent in January 2016.
Dr: Paskin's contribution t0 persistent identifiers
and
the DOI System
particular; was
incomparable.
greatly missed by all those who had the privilege of knowing and working with him.
DOI System for the Building Industry
A major research project looking at the feasibility and usefulness of the DOI System for products in the building industry has
been launched in the UK. NBS (National Building Specification) , BSL (British Standards Institution) and the CPA
Construction
Products Association) will be inviting professionals from throughout the construction industry t0 participate in the project; which
is part funded by Innovate_UK and launched on Ist October 2015_
The research will establish how
common identification
system for construction products and documentation could benefit the industry; complementing existing digital models such as
Building Information Modelling (BIM) digital representations of physical and functional characteristics of places_
If shown t0 be
beneficial to the industry; the later stages will build on this initial work t0 create
pilot system: As part of this activity:
representatives of the project partners (RIBA Enterprises and BSI) have joined the International
DOI Foundation as
General
Member: See the press release for more information:
DOI Outreach Meetings
The 2015 DOLQutreach Meeting, organised by JaLC (Japan Link Center). was held December
2015 in Tokyo. The meeting
demonstrated to the Japanese community the benefits of DOl in various use cases
For more information contact Yusuke
Yogoro at the Japan Department of Databases for Information and Knowledge Infrastructure _
Japan Science and Technology
Agency:
The 2014 DOI Outreach Meeting_
organised by DOI Registration Agency mEDRA
focused on services enabled by DOIs
demonstrated by use cases showing applications and external
projects within the DOI community:
collection of presentations
from the meeting
available here: See also
DOLunveiled"
Smart Book Report on Outreach Meeting 2014 by Paola
Mazzucchi, AIE
MEDRA
DOl outreach meetings were held in Asia in December 2013, on December
in Taipei and December
in Beijing: These were
one day meetings were organised by local DOI Registration Agencies (Airti Jnc
Taipei; The Institute of Scientiic and
Technical Information of China (ISIIC) and China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) in Beijing). The meeting theme
was
Open Meeting
Innovative Content Applications Driven by DOI"
Each meeting gave an overview of DOl and its underlying