updates from medra: a networking strategy to enhance doi deployment london, 22 june 2003

Updates from mEDRA:

A networking strategy to enhance DOI

deployment

London, 22 June 2003

IDF member meeting

www.medra.orgwww.medra.org

Piero AttanasioAIE – Associazione Italiana Editori

Two mEDRA key concepts

1. The longer is the value chain, the higher is the DOI value

• Intermediaries are key alliances for us

• We are dialoguing with aggregators, secondary publishers, service providers, libraries, but also Telcom companies, IT vendors, etc.

2. Services are essential but our job is to be effective Registration Agency

• Stimulate third parties to provide DOI-based services

• Co-operation with other Registration agencies


What we did from last year

We implemented the plans I illustrated last year• Full implementation of registration tools

• Applications to control persistence

• Voluntary deposit system

• Relation tracking data structure

• “Metadata manager” for small publishers (still in pilot version)


What we did from last year

We started experimentation of the system• Some 30,000 DOIs registered by early adopters

• 32 early adopters registrants, 80 prefixes allocated

That’s the easy part of our job:

July the 1st, 2004 we are starting our real business activities

• Based on some paradigmatic business cases…

• … and looking at new implementations, in the same line


Business case 1:(10-1389/BC1.0)


University community

University libraries

mEDRA

Casalini Digital

Division

DOI assignment and metadata provision

PublishersPublishers


PublishersOther producers

A short term evolution…


Australianuniversity community

University libraries

mEDRA

Casalini Digital

Division



PublishersOther producers

CAL

Right negotiation for course packs

Search

Business case 2: Italian Med-On-Line(Tentative title)


A group of 14 Italian medical publishers will assign DOIs to their content

• Both digital content and printed items

• Journals articles, monographs, part of monographs

• As a perspective: learning objects

Metadata will be enriched by cataloguing service

Possibly, secondary publishers and/or aggregators will be involved

• Digitalisation of backlist

• Digital Rights Management

• Looking for institutional collaboration

Business case 2: Italian Med-On-Line


Medical professionals

Bibliographic database


PublishersPublishers DB

MD service

Printed or digital items

SearchmEDRA

DBDOI reg.

Link (DOI)

DOI Registration and metadata flow

Resolution 1

Aggregator

Resolution 2

Rights management

Library

Dig

italis

atio

n

Business case 3: D-LORDOI-ed Learning Object Repositories


The objective is to allow educational institutions to search LOs from a single access point

Different types of LO providers will be involved

Collaboration with the Italian Ministry of Education and Italian Ministry of Innovation

The D-LOR project

Learning community

eLearning providers

mEDRA

Other LO producers

Content providers (created ad hoc)

Publishers

eLearning platformsvendors

Service providers

LORs

DOI assignment and metadata exchange Rights negotiation

D-LORs SearchSearch facilitites

Search


Collaboration with other RAs


A key issue for mEDRA

The concept is: once a registrant assigns DOIs to its content, it should access all the other services provided by other RAs or third parties

It is generally agreed by lack of practical experimentation

By next year we hope to show something concrete, with other RAs

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