Category: DOI
In the news: ORCID and CrossRef Collaborate to Accurately Attribute Authorship of Scholarly Content
Two organisations, ORCID and CrossRef, have collaborated to solve the problem of ambiguous author names in scholarly content. ORCID began assigning unique identifiers to researchers in October.
ORCID, was established in 2010 as non-profit organisation serving the research community. You may contact the Executive Director Laure Haak at l.haak@orcid.org and follow @ORCID_Org on Twitter.
CrossRef is a not-for-profit membership association of scholarly publishers. Since its founding in 2000, CrossRef has provided reference linking services for over 56 million content items, including journal articles, books and book chapters, conference proceedings, reference entries, technical reports, standards, and data sets.
As part of the ORCID Registry, individuals can search the metadata from CrossRef, the largest organisation assigning Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to scholarly content, and add their works to their personal ORCID records.
The ultimate goal is to have the ORCID unique identifier associated with the article DOI whenever a scholarly contribution is made or reported. Read the full article here.
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Digital Object Identifiers - now official!
On Monday 23rd April, 2012, a new International Standards Office (ISO) standard was authorised - ISO 26324:2012
DOI is an acronym for "digital object identifier".
The formal explanation from ISO is "specifies the syntax, description and resolution functional components of the digital object identifier system, and the general principles for the creation, registration and administration of DOI names.
A DOI name is an identifier of an entity - physical, digital or abstract - on digital networks. It provides information about that object, including where the object, or information about it, can be found on the Internet".
The more informal explanation is "that it is an efficient means of identifying an entity over the Internet and used primarily for sharing with an interested user community or managing as intellectual property."
You will find most journal articles & conference papers now have a DOI embedded at time of publication.
For further information, please read this article from ISO or visit the DOI Organisation.
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Article - Implementing DOIs for Research Data
In the most recent issue of D-Lib Magazine, Natasha Simons examines the growing culture of data citation around use of the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) System. In discussing the recent collaboration between ANDS and DataCite to produce the Cite My Data Service, and the implementation of DOIs at Griffith University, she reveals the complexities and benefits of adopting DOIs for research data collections in Australia.
Article Abstract:
Research is increasingly collaborative and global in nature, and efforts to manage the vast amounts of research data generated daily require global solutions. The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) system provides a means of persistent identification of research data collections and datasets that is global, standardised and widely used. The Australian National Data Service (ANDS) partnered with DataCite to offer a DOI minting service. At Griffith University, implementing DOIs raised governance questions common to other institutions that encouraged discussion and collaboration.
Click here for the full article from D-Lib Magazine.
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