Completed project
Aim of the project
Development and operation of a central agency for allocation, registration and management of DOIs for primary and secondary data of Swiss universities.
Description of the project
An organizational concept is to be devised and implemented for operating the registration agency. In addition, the requisite technical infrastructure is to be developed and then launched. For each digital object, in addition to the DOI and the associated URL, the metadata is also registered in Dublin Core format.
DOI purchasers are institutes and institutions that operate a document server. The sustainability of these data storage units must be ensured. The end users of the service are members of the Swiss scientific community who want to make their primary data (e.g. series of measurements) or secondary data (e.g. post-prints) citable on a long-term basis. The guidelines for DOI registration are set out in a policy.
Current information to the DOI registration: ETH Zurich DOI desk.
Synergies and context
The project is to be carried out in the context of e-lib.ch: Swiss Electronic Library.
Cooperation partners
- IT Services of ETH Zurich for technical development and technical operation of the DOI registration agency.
- DataCite – International Data Citation Initiative for establishment of a joint DOI registration agency.
Timeframe, sequence
| April 2009: | Implementation of the first pilot project for DOI registration |
| 2009/2010: | Development of processes and organization for DOI Desk (registration agency) |
| 2011: | Live launch |
| 2012: | End of project |
