[tei-council] Proposal for SF 2411994, "Define canonical way of referencing TEI element definitions"

[David Sewell]

I don't believe we could escape an annual cost. One of the fundamentals
of the DOI system is that a DOI prefix is assigned by a registrar, and
these set fees:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier#DOI_assignment_fees

There are other registrars besides CrossRef, but their fees are
even higher.

TIB Hannover
(http://www.tib-hannover.de/en/the-tib/doi-registration-agency/): annual
fee €250. (focuses on scientific literature anyway)

mEDRA Europe (http://www.medra.org/en/index.htm): annual fee varies by
DOIs included, for 750 would be €1350 (!!).

EU Publications Office serves as a DOI registrar for official EU
publications but not, I think, for external publishers

There are of course open-source solutions for assigning permanent URLs
and resolving them via proxy servers, but the cost to us in time and
effort of implementing might exceed the CrossRef costs.

David


On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Laurent Romary wrote:

> Hi David,
> Thanks for this. Is there a way to have the same service without having to pay
> systematically? Isn't there an academic endeavour that we could link with?
> Laurent
>
>
> Le 24 mars 09 à 04:19, David Sewell a écrit :
>
> > I've created a proposal document:
> >
> > http://lister.ei.virginia.edu/~drs2n/DOI/
> >
> > It is not as polished as I'd like but I wanted to distribute it in
> > advance of our meeting to give people time to read it and the relevant
> > links before we gather in Lyon.
> >
> > The very short executive summary: Yes, I think we should register for
> > and use DOI's for the Guidelines. But various questions remain.
> >
> > David
> >
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