DOI Handbook

Bibliography

This selected bibliography lists sources of additional information on related technologies, standards, and background on the DOI System.

Related technologies

• Handle System®: Documentation.
• The Vocabulary Mapping Framework (VMF): An Introduction.
• Indecs™ framework: “The Metadata Framework: Principles, model and data dictionary”, Godfrey Rust and Mark Bide (2000).

References cited in ISO 26324, DOI System

Standards references

• ISO 26324:2012 Information and documentation — Digital object identifier system (Information et documentation — Système d’identifiant numérique d’objet). ISO 26324 was prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 46, Information and documentation, Subcommittee SC 9, Identification and description.
• ANSI/NISO Z39.84-2010 Syntax for the Digital Object Identifier. The full standard can be downloaded as a PDF file for no charge from NISO.

Normative Reference of ISO 26324

• Unicode Consortium: The Unicode Standard. The latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.

Other references cited in ISO 26324

• Internet Engineering Task Force. RFC 3986, Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax. January 2005.
• Internet Engineering Task Force. RFC 4452, The “info” URI Scheme for Information Assets with Identifiers in Public Namespaces.
• ISO/TC46/SC9 N417, Use cases for interoperability of ISO TC46/SC9 identifiers: background information for agenda item 9.7 of the ISO TC46/SC9 meeting in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Other ISO TC46/SC9 standards

• ISO 2108, Information and documentation — International standard book number (ISBN)
• ISO 3297, Information and documentation — International standard serial number (ISSN)
• ISO 3901, Information and documentation — International Standard Recording Code (ISRC)
• ISO 15706-1, Information and documentation — International Standard Audiovisual Number (ISAN) — Part 1: Audiovisual work identifier
• ISO 15707, Information and documentation — International Standard Musical Work Code (ISWC)
• ISO/IEC 10646:2003, Information technology — Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS)
• ISO/IEC 21000-6, Information technology — Multimedia framework (MPEG-21) — Part 6: Rights Data Dictionary
• ISO 21047, Information and documentation — International Standard Text Code (ISTC)
• ISO 27729, Information and documentation — International standard name identifier (ISNI)
• ISO 27730, Information and documentation — International standard collection identifier (ISCI)

History

• Bide, Mark. “The DOI — Twenty Years On”. D-Lib Magazine, Vol. 21, No. 7/8, July/August 2015. https://doi.org/10.1045/july2015-bide
• Robert E. Kahn & Robert Wilensky. “A Framework for Distributed Digital Object Services” (May 1995) https://hdl.handle.net/4263537/5001. Re-published in International Journal on Digital Libraries, (2006) 6(2): 115-123. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-005-0128-x, and reproduced here with permission of the publisher.
• Rust, Godfrey. “Metadata: The Right Approach. An Integrated Model for Descriptive and Rights Metadata in E-commerce”. D-Lib Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 7/8 (July/August 1998) https://doi.org/10.1045/july98-rust.
• Green, Brian & Bide, Mark. “Unique Identifiers: a brief introduction”. Book Industry Communication/EDItEUR (February 1999).
• Kahn, Robert E. & Cerf, Vinton G. “What is the Internet (And What makes it Work)?”. (December 1999). Copy of a paper prepared for the Internet Policy Institute.
• Paskin, Norman; “Towards a Rights Data Dictionary — Identifiers and Semantics at work on the net”; imi insights; EPS Ltd (June 2002).
• Paskin, Norman. “On Making and Identifying a ‘Copy’”. D-Lib Magazine, Vol. 9, No. 1 (January 2003) https://doi.org/10.1045/january2003-paskin.
• “DOI: Starting a new generation” by David Worlock. Reproduced with permission from EPS Update (8 May 2003).
• Paskin, Norman. “DOI: a 2003 Progress Report”. D-Lib Magazine, Vol. 9, No. 6 (June 2003) https://doi.org/10.1045/june2003-paskin.
• “Not your Father’s DOI: New Applications Show Wider Promise” by Steve Sieck. Reproduced with permission from EPS Insights (1 July 2003).
• Paskin, Norman. “Components of DRM Systems: Identification and Metadata”, in E. Becker et al (eds) “Digital Rights Management: Technological, Economic, Legal, and Political Aspects in the European Union” in the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag (2003) pp. 26-61.
• NISO: Digital Identifiers Roundtable: report on Recommendations and Findings (March 13-14, 2006).
• Paskin, Norman. “Identifier Interoperability: A Report on Two Recent ISO Activities”. D-Lib Magazine, Vol. 12, No. 4 (April 2006), https://doi.org/10.1045/april2006-paskin.
• Interview with CNRI CEO Bob Kahn. “A different kind of Internet” by Wyatt Kash, Government Computer News (GCN) (May 14, 2009).
• G.M. Garrity, L.M. Thompson, D.W. Ussery, N. Paskin, D. Baker, P. Desmeth, D.E. Schindel and P.S. Ong, Study on the Identification, Tracking and Monitoring of Genetic Resources, Convention on Biological Diversity, WG ABS 8, 9 - 15 November 2009, in particular, see section Persistent Identifiers, pp. 53 - 88.
• “The Formation of Crossref”, a Short History, 1999-2009.
• Paskin, Norman, “Digital Object Identifier (DOI®) System”, Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, 3rd Edition, 1:1, pp. 1586—1592, (2010), ISBN: 978-0-8493-9712-7. (Note: This article may be used for research, teaching and private study purposes; it is reproduced on this site with permission of the publisher but may not be distributed further. Go here for full public access to the DOI article.)