关键词:
DIGITAL Object Identifiers
DIGITAL preservation
METADATA
摘要:
My thanks to Kurt Molholm and his ICSTI colleagues for the invitation topresent DOI at a meeting on the digital preservation of the record of science. Whilst I am not anexpert on the topics of archiving and preservation, I believe that many of the issues which we haveencountered in developing the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) system are common to preservationsdiscussions; and many of the communities represented at this conference, such as the STM publishingcommunity, the scientific communities, and the metadata communities, have been very active incollaborating with us. Issues of persistence and the solutions to it - such as separation of theproblem into components, and the recognition that persistence is fundamentally a socialinfrastructure rather than a technology infrastructure problem - have been fundamental designprinciples of information identifiers that influenced COI [1]. Equally, the importance of uniqueidentification has been recognised by the digital preservation community. [2].