The DOI^® System is currently being standardised through ISO. In December 2007 the Working Group for this project approved a final draft as a Committee Draft (standard for voting) which is now being processed by ISO. See Overviews, Standards and Specifications for information and updates on the process as it develops.

"Naming and Meaning: key to the management of intellectual property in digital media" by Norman Paskin (pre-print). Paper reviewed and accepted for publication as part of The Europe-China Conference on Intellectual Property in Digital Media (IPDM06), Shanghai, October 2006.

"Naming and Meaning of Digital Objects" by Norman Paskin (pre-print). Paper reviewed and accepted for publication as part of 2nd International Conference on Automated Production of Cross Media Content for Multi-channel Distribution, Leeds, UK, December 2006.

"Naming and meaning: requirements for Internet progress" by Norman Paskin. Position paper in: Internet Governance for Development: Focusing on the Issues (invited workshop).

"The International DOI Foundation: A Persistent Organisation Supporting a Persistent Identifier" by Cynthia Hodgson, ISQ Editor, in NISO's Information Standards Quarterly, July 2004, pg. 6.

CrossRef 2007 Annual Member Meeting, Agenda, with links to presentations, panel discussions and talks from the meeting.

5th International Workshop for Technical, Economic and Legal Aspects of Business Models for Virtual Goods, "Indirect DRM Evaluation Architecture". Presentation by Gregory Heileman, Henry Jerez, Pramod Jamkhedkar and Joud Khoury, October 2007.

WIPO Seminar on Rights Management Information, "Identifiers and Licensing Information, Overview and Introduction", presentations prepared by Norman Paskin for the seminar, September 2007.

"Content Industry Standards Activities", Overview and Presentation prepared for the ITU Focus Group on Identity Management, February 2007.

"The Handle System", Overview and Presentation prepared for the ITU Focus Group on Identity Management, February 2007.

Electronic Publishing, Digital Archiving and Licensing, a Joint Workshop from EDItEUR and AKEP, 20 October 2005, Frankfurt Book Fair. See Norman Paskin's presentation "Structured management of digital content and licenses"

27th International Supply Chain Specialists Meeting, 18 October 2005, Frankfurt Book Fair. See presentation by Angela D'Agostino, Vice President, Business Development & Marketing, Frankfurt Supply Chain Seminar, "The DOI in Mainstream Publishing".

Seminar on Electronic Communication of Licence Terms and Rights Information
2 December 2004, London, UK. Sponsored by EDItEUR, Book Industry Communication and NISO. View Norman Paskin's presentation on the Indecs Data Dictionary.)

DOI^® News
June 2008

Topics covered in this news release are: "ISO standard on the DOI System: Update", "Presentations from IDF Annual Meetings 2008", "Recent DOI Tools" and "Overview article on the DOI System: Revised".

DOI^® News
December 2007

Topics covered in this news release are: "ISO standard on the DOI System", "IDF Annual Meetings 2008", "Standards to be linked using DOI System" and "Latest DOI Tools".

DOI^® News
July 2007

Topics covered in this news release are: "Innovative uses of the DOI System", "International DOI Foundation participating in BISG study group", "International DOI Foundation joins ACAP" and "Recent technology interviews about the DOI System".

DOI^® News
March 2007

Topics covered in this news release are: "Chinese DOI Agency launched", "DOI Foundation participating in licensing standard activities", and "IDF meetings to be held in June".

IDF Press Release, March 19, 2006
International DOI Foundation announces launch of Chinese Registration Agency

"The International DOI Foundation and Wanfang Data, an affiliate of the Chinese Ministry of Science & Technology, have announced the launch of a Chinese DOI Registration Agency with immediate effect."

DOI^® News
July 2006

Topics covered in this news release are: "Presentations available from "Digital objects and the management of information" seminar ", "MVB and MEDRA partner to extend DOI registration in German language areas", "CrossRef surpasses 20 million DOI^® names", and "CrossRef register over half a million book DOI^® names".

IDF Press Release, April 17, 2006
ISO/IEC 21000-6 (MPEG-21 Rights Data Dictionary) launched

"The International DOI Foundation announces the launch of the web site for the MPEG-21 Rights Data Dictionary (RDD). This dictionary provides the basis for a resource to create widely understood, consistent meaning for Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems and other systems requiring semantic interoperability of terms."

DOI^® News
April 2006

Topics covered in this news release are: "ISO/IEC 21000-6 (MPEG-21 Rights Data Dictionary) launched", "Identifier interoperability: A report on two recent ISO activities", and "CrossRef launches free-text service to find DOI names".

DOI^® News
November 2005

Topics covered in this news release are: "IDF restructures, consolidates number of Registration Agencies", "Handle System inventor receives prestigious awards", "ALPSP Awards for Publishing Innovation features DOI^® system-based services", and "Availability and Persistence of Web References".

IDF News Release, November 14, 2005
International DOI Foundation and CDI agree a constructive dis-engagement of CDI from the IDF

"This agreement recognizes a maturation of the marketplace with emerging different business models, and demonstrates the commitment made by the IDF to ensure that DOI names are persistent even with changes in registration agency and management."

DOI^® News
September 2005

Topics covered in this news release are: "IDF mandates social infrastructure to ensure persistence", "IDF develops policy commitment on patents", "CrossRef deploys OpenURL resolver", "Connotea can now bookmark DOIs natively", "DOI names and Deeplinked E-Reserves: Innovative Links for the Future", and "Seminar on Electronic publishing, Digital archiving and Licensing".

IDF Press Release, September 2005
International DOI Foundation adopts policy on patents to foster wide distribution and use of DOI names

"The International DOI Foundation has adopted a Patent Policy covering the rights and obligations of Registration Agencies, following completion of its Strategic Review and approval at the 2005 members' meeting."

DOI^® News
June 2005

Topics covered in this news release are: "DOI names for Science Data -- latest developments", "MarketLinks: 'Bringing the DOI system into the book publishing mainstream'", "digilibri: DOI names for image content", "Annual IDF Members' meeting: 'Value added'", "IDF participates in Internet governance forum", and "Handle System available for Grid applications".

IDF Press Release, 4 May 2005
New DOI system Registration Agency for scientific data appointed: 1,500,000 datasets to be registered by end of 2005

"The International DOI Foundation is now pleased to announce ... the appointment of TIB as a full Registration Agency. Approximately 1,500,000 datasets are expected to be registered by TIB by the end of 2005, and the registration of primary data will be widened to other science fields in 2006."

DOI^® News
April 2005

Topics covered in this news release are: "New agency: DOI names for scientific data", "DOI system and Google", "Revision of NISO standard: DOI system Syntax", "IDF appointed as Registration Authority for MPEG Data Dictionary", "IDF announces strategic review", and "DOI system and license terms: ONIX".

IDF News Release, 1 December 2004
Publications Office set to deliver more focused service becoming a Registration Agency for Digital Object identifiers

"The Director of the European Union Publications Office, Mr. Thomas L. Cranfield, and the Director of the International DOI Foundation, Dr. Norman Paskin, signed an official agreement today, December 1st 2004, confirming the Publications Office of the European Union as a Registration Agency for the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) system."

See the archive for earlier DOI^® News and Press Releases.