The IDF is pleased to announce the appointment of The Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (ISTIC) as a DOI Registration Agency. Previously, Wanfang Data was appointed as a Registration Agency in China in 2007 (See DOI News, March 2007) and has since assigned over 1.6 million DOI names. Since its inception Wanfang Data has collaborated with ISTIC in the management and development of the DOI Registration Agency, and this is now recognised in the formal expansion and transfer of the Registration Agency from Wanfang Data to ISTIC. Wanfang Data will remain an active DOI participant through a registration sub-licence from ISTIC under the auspices of IDF; other sub-licenses may be appointed, by agreement with the IDF, in the future. The Registration Agency will continue to focus on the development of a Chinese language platform and gateway for DOI use, and on providing added-value services, including expansion of linking services for Chinese journals, and management of scientific data sets in China. See the full text of the ISTIC announcement.

Norman Paskin, IDF ("Domain Names and Persistent Identifiers", PDF) and Sean Reilly, Corporation for National Research Initiatives ("Handles and DNS Persistence", PDF) presented at the DCC/W3C Workshop on Domain Name Persistence (Workshop #9) held in Bristol, UK, on December 8, 2012.

The Entertainment ID Registry (EIDR), launched in 2011 as an open, standards-based effort built on the DOI System, to assist the entertainment industry in identifying and tracking digital movie and TV content in commercial distribution, announced on September 7, 2011 that leading entertainment companies have begun integrating the use of EIDR IDs into their digital distribution workflows. See the EIDR Press Release.

The IDF is pleased to announce that with effect from 12 July 2011, Airiti Incorporated has been appointed as a DOI Registration Agency, with a focus on assigning DOI names to Traditional Chinese materials. Airiti was founded in Taipei in 2000. With a staff of over 200, Airiti has offices in Taiwan, Hong Kong and China. Starting as the Art Image Indexing Service, Airiti has gradually developed into a dominant aggregator of digital contents in Traditional Chinese. Its mission is to accelerate the spread and understanding of Chinese art, literature, culture and knowledge among people around the world. Airiti serves thousands of academic organizations and hundreds of thousands of researchers worldwide.

The DOI^® has been standardised through the International Standards Organisation, ISO (via ISO TC46/SC9). The Final Draft International Standard (ISO/DIS 26324, Information and Documentation — Digital Object Identifier System) was approved by 100% of those voting in a ballot closing on November 15, 2010. The standard is now moving through the publication process.

"Digital object identifier", entry in Wikipedia.

"Naming and Meaning: key to the management of intellectual property in digital media" by Norman Paskin. Paper published as part of The Europe-China Conference on Intellectual Property in Digital Media (IPDM06), Shanghai, October 2006.

"Naming and Meaning of Digital Objects" by Norman Paskin. Paper reviewed and presented at 2nd International Conference on Automated Production of Cross Media Content for Multi-channel Distribution, Leeds, UK, December 2006.

"Naming and meaning: requirements for Internet progress" by Norman Paskin. Position paper in: Internet Governance for Development: Focusing on the Issues (invited workshop).

"The International DOI Foundation: A Persistent Organisation Supporting a Persistent Identifier" by Cynthia Hodgson, ISQ Editor, in NISO's Information Standards Quarterly, July 2004, pg. 6.

5th International Workshop for Technical, Economic and Legal Aspects of Business Models for Virtual Goods, "Indirect DRM Evaluation Architecture". Presentation by Gregory Heileman, Henry Jerez, Pramod Jamkhedkar and Joud Khoury, October 2007.

WIPO Seminar on Rights Management Information, "Identifiers and Licensing Information, Overview and Introduction", presentations prepared by Norman Paskin for the seminar, September 2007.

"Content Industry Standards Activities", Overview and Presentation prepared for the ITU Focus Group on Identity Management, February 2007.

"The Handle System", Overview and Presentation prepared for the ITU Focus Group on Identity Management, February 2007.

Electronic Publishing, Digital Archiving and Licensing, a Joint Workshop from EDItEUR and AKEP, 20 October 2005, Frankfurt Book Fair. See Norman Paskin's presentation "Structured management of digital content and licenses"

27th International Supply Chain Specialists Meeting, 18 October 2005, Frankfurt Book Fair. See presentation by Angela D'Agostino, Vice President, Business Development & Marketing, Frankfurt Supply Chain Seminar, "The DOI in Mainstream Publishing".

Seminar on Electronic Communication of Licence Terms and Rights Information
2 December 2004, London, UK. Sponsored by EDItEUR, Book Industry Communication and NISO. View Norman Paskin's presentation on the Indecs Data Dictionary.)

DOI^® News
April 2011

Topics covered in this news release are: "DOI System exceeds 50 million assigned identifiers ", "DOI System and Linked Data ", "Revised DOI charging model.

DOI^® News
November 2010

Topics covered in this news release are: "DOI System approved as an International Standard ", "DOI adopted by entertainment industry initiative ", "DOI and ISBN collaboration.

DOI^® News
May 2010

Topics covered in this news release are: "DOI for Datasets: DataCite Summer Meeting 2010 ", "International DOI Foundation Annual Meeting 2010 ", "DOI System Moves to Final ISO Standardization, DOI-based Tool for Taxonomy, and International DOI Foundation Launches shortDOI™ Service.

See the archive for earlier DOI^® News and Press Releases.