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IDF Annual MeetingJune 2004

DOI in Context

David R. WorlockChairman

Electronic Publishing Services

Ltd.

London and

New York

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IDF Annual Meeting, June 2004DOI in context

Peaks and Troughs of Innovation

Technologytrigger

Peak of inflatedexpectations

Trough ofdisillusionment

Slope ofenlightenment

Plateau ofproductivity

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IDF Annual Meeting, June 2004DOI in context

DOI in the innovation cycle

Rfid

Semantic web

Search

Taxonomy web service UDDI

DOI

Technologytrigger

Peak of inflatedexpectations

Trough ofdisillusionment

Slope ofenlightenment

Plateau ofproductivity

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Information Futures Current Information Productivity: 1-2 Exabytes of

information per annum(1 exabyte = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes or 1018 bytes) 250 megabytes for every man, woman and child on

Earth 5 exabytes equals every word ever spoken by

human beings!

We could have an information problem – but fortunately printed documents of all types comprise only .003% of this!

(http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/how-much-info)

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DOI-enabled Content Distribution Scenarios

Content

DOI

DOI

DOI

DOI

Metadata Multilink syndication

DOI Related content/businesspartners

Aggregator Channel

management

Google/Yahoo!

Established content Aggregators

Navigation systems (STM)

DOI

Bi-lateral“virtual

aggregation”DOI Complimentary

Content providers

Superdistribution

Fulfillment managementBookstores, digital

production/distributionFacilities, etc.

DOI

DOI

Email, P2P networks

Contextual content

Source: TSO

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The power of users in the network

Open Access – it’s not who pays, it’s who stores

P2P – changing the practices of powerful supplies

E-Learning and e-Teaching – and trading the results

The democratisation of publishing – we are all content generators now

PURL – distraction, or the user’s intermediaries and their power struggle

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“I don’t care if I never see another DOI….”

Visualisation, content mapping Custom interfaces to distributed

metadata and federated searching Content management

environments based on persistent identity principles

“…. And you probably won’t, but your systems will depend upon them.”

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Persistent identity is also important for….

Users – DUI Access Control - Shibboleth DRM

Vital elements in the network marketplace environment

Content Access Context

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The battle for content navigation: STM

PRIMARY A&I NAVIGATIONScienceDirect

(Reed)Scopus

Abstracting 14,000 titles

Agreements with ACS

Scirus/ScienceDirect navigation

- (Thomson) ISI: Web Citation Index (with CiteSeer)

BiosisContracts with IEEE,

CABI

ISI Web of Knowledge (Science)

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The dilemma of the search engines … frustration is sending the user to a web site, and then

having him search it for any references to the search subject – in vain …

Yahoo! (Overture)

Google

Microsoft MSN?

“… there is no B2C, or B2B – just B2U” …

… the more you search, the more (inaccurate, out of date, irrelevant information you find …

… so you need to crawl secure, itemized information and add value to it to create a real degree of search satisfaction …

Value add

Secure, itemised

information

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What do we need to make our vision work?

Certainty of recall Demonstrable authenticity of

recalled object Effective relationship mapping and

multi-linking Organised metadata as primary

level content management This is the promise that DOI must deliver

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David Worlock, ChairmanElectronic Publishing Services

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