--- On Thu, 14 Apr 2011, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
On 4/14/2011 9:09 AM, Rick Johnson wrote:
I will investigate further how we could become a DOI registry agency
ourselves.
To be clear, you wouldn't want to be what I call a "registrar" (not sure if
that's what DOI calls them), which is a much higher-level infrastructural
agency like CrossRef or DataCite, that is responsible for a huge chunk of
DOI's with it's own high-level DOI namespace.
That's correct. You probably don't want to become a registration agency.
To support user's creation of individual DOIs via our EZID service, we
(CDL) pay thousands of dollars annually.
-John
I am not sure _what_ you'd want to be. If going through CrossRef, then I
guess you'd want to join CrossRef. If going through DataCite, then I suspect
the EZID service is sufficient and there's no reason to do anything else. And
of course you could do both. Or something else entirely that I don't
understand, I probably still don't have the whole picture of DOI
possibilities.
Jonathan
