DOI

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Basic Metadata [ Edit ]
Type	Entity
Name	Digital Object Identifier
Subject or Tag	Provenance Metadata, Entity Reference

• A DOI name - a digital identifier for any object of intellectual property
• A DOI name provides a means of persistently identifying a piece of intellectual property on a digital network and associating it with related current data in a structured extensible way.
• A DOI name differs from commonly used internet pointers to material such as the URL because it identifies an object as a first-class entity, not simply the place where the object is located. The DOI name identifies an entity directly, not some attribute of an object (an address is an attribute of a thing, whereas the thing itself is a first class object).
• A DOI name is an implementation of the Internet concepts of Uniform Resource Name and Universal Resource Identifier. A DOI name differs from abstract naming specifications such as URI in that it is a defined implementation complete with social and technical infrastructure, ready to use.
• The DOI Data Model comprises an interoperable structured data dictionary: the indecs Data dictionary (iDD) and a framework for applying it.
• While DC starts from a small group of "core" elements, and DOI Application Profiles include a small group of "kernel" elements, the two do not serve the same purpose.

• http://www.doi.org/overview/080625DOI-ELIS-Paskin.pdf