What are the new or additional roles and responsibilities being expected of information professionals and the environment (technology, management needs and expectations, etc.) changes? Developing new types of positions, re-training staff, and having new expectations of professionals are key to realizing change within our institutions.
Jose Griffiths, Chief Information Officer at the University of Michigan, will present the impressions she has gleaned from research and communications within and outside the University.
DOI's are being designed to present information about any digitized object — a document, or a part of a document, an executable program, sound or video, or even a collection of some or all of these, each one of which might have its own DOI. When the DOI infrastructure is implemented, one will be able to retrieve either a digital object itself or information about where and under what conditions the object can be retrieved, depending on the owners wishes. The information presented through a DOI could be a document itself, publisher information, copyright or usage information, or whatever is desired/considered necessary by the object's owner.
The design of the DOI system was initiated by the Association of American Publishers to meet their complex of needs in protecting and disseminating digital information, especially electronic journals. The technological backbone of the system is the CNRI Handle System designed by Robert Kahn and others at the Corporation for National Research Initiatives. Technologically, the system is probably sufficiently flexible to incorporate most needs, uses and users. Several trial implementations are in place today, but policies on usage are now being developed for larger scale implementations.
This invited session will introduce the DOI concept, explain how and why it was developed and how it is working at the Library of Congress and elsewhere, and encourage input on design, policy and usage considerations while the design process is underway.
Speakers:
History & Policy: Craig Van Dyck, John Wiley & Sons; Chair, AAP Enabling
Technologies Committee
Technology Design: Larry Lannom, CNRI
Moderator: Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information
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