[Asis-l] [News] DOI News - June 2009

[Joy Davidson]

DOI News - June 2009

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In this issue:

1. Launch of Vocabulary Mapping Framework
2. Registration open for 2009 IDF Open Meeting: "Ensuring Persistence"
3. IDF partners in Europeana
4. New publications on DOI System

1. Launch of "Vocabulary Mapping Framework"

A new initiative, the Vocabulary Mapping Framework (VMF), has been 
announced by a consortium of partners. This will create an extensive and 
authoritative mapping of vocabularies from nine major content metadata 
standards, creating a downloadable tool to support interoperability 
across communities. The mapping will also be extensible to other 
standards. The work builds on the principles of interoperability 
established in the indecs Content Model, and is an expansion of the 
existing RDA/ONIX Framework into a comprehensive vocabulary of resource 
relators and categories, which will be a superset of those used in major 
standards from the publisher/producer, education and 
bibliographic/heritage communities.

The International DOI Foundation, which fully endorses this work, will 
provide a web hosting facility for the Framework as part of its 
commitment to promoting the wider use of interoperable metadata, and 
will use the vocabulary mapping wherever possible to support the 
association of metadata with DOI names.

For additional information see:

  -o- VMF project announcement, June 15, 2009, at 
http://www.doi.org/news/VMF_project_announcement_090615.pdf

  -o- "indecs Content Model" at 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indecs_Content_Model

  -o- "RDA/ONIX Framework for resource categorization" at 
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january07/dunsire/01dunsire.html

2. Registration open for 2009 IDF Open Meeting: "Ensuring Persistence"

The 2009 International DOI Foundation annual open meeting, "Ensuring 
Persistence", will be held in San Francisco on October 7, 2009. A range 
of international speakers will discuss topics including persistence as 
interoperability (including discussion of the Vocabulary Mapping 
Framework), and persistence as social infrastructure (including 
experiences and lessons from other communities).

Participants are welcomed from a wide range of communities and 
interests. Registration for this one day meeting is now open. The 
meeting is held in conjunction with other meetings including the 
International Conference on Digital Preservation (iPres 2009).

For further information and to register for the meeting see 2009 IDF 
Open Meeting: "Ensuring Persistence" at 
http://www.doi.org/doi_presentations/members_meeting_2009/index.html.

3. IDF partners in Europeana

The International DOI Foundation (IDF) has joined the European 
Commission's Europeana v1.0 Thematic Partner Network. The goal for 
Europeana is to make European information resources easier to use in an 
online environment. It will combine multicultural and multilingual 
environments with technological advances and new business models. This 
project is the successor network to the EC-funded EDLnet thematic 
network which created the EDL (European Digital Library) Foundation and 
the Europeana prototype of 4 million digital items.

IDF will participate in the network to offer technical and 
infrastructure advice on identifiers, metadata and related issues. 
Europeana Version 1.0 is being developed and will launch in 2010 with 
links to over 10 million digital objects.

For additional information, see the Europeana prototype at 
http://www.europeana.eu/portal/ and for background on Europeana, see 
http://www.europeana.eu/portal/aboutus.html#background.

4. New publications on DOI System

A range of new publications is now available on the DOI System and 
related issues, including:

  -o- A new Wikipedia article on the DOI System at 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier

  -o- Related Wikipedia articles on the Handle System 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handle_System) and the indecs Content 
Model (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indecs_Content_Model), the technical 
underpinnings of the DOI System

  -o- An update of the DOI Factsheet "DOI System and Internet Identifier 
Specifications" at http://www.doi.org/factsheets/DOIIdentifierSpecs.html

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