Tokyo, 3rd December 2015

2015

Advantages of registering DOIs:
rights management, Context Aware MultipleResolution

About mEDRA and our activities•

mEDRA is a SME and a joint venture by AIE (Italian Publishers Association) and CINECA(the Italian Interuniversity Computing Centre) founded in 2004 and operates as:
DOI Registration Agency
consultancy and training agency and in the field of identification standards and metadata
technology provider of e-infrastructures for the publishing industry
R&D centre for innovation-intensive projects in Italy and abroad•We are active since 2007 in the field of rights information management in digital
environment

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DOI and rights management•Over 120 million

names assigned across media and content types (textualworks, books, journal articles, research outcomes, datasets, PSI, movies and TV series)
Content identified by a DOI name always has some kind of rights information, whether incopyright or not, and may have usage and access policies associated (commercial licenses,creative commons, OA)
this is not always know to the content user from the outset

The use of DOI can facilitate the discovery of rights
information at the point of discovery of the content

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DOI and rights metadata•

DOI metadata collected by Registration Agencies include (optional) fields for rights,
mEDRA collects name of copyright owner and copyright year
This means that users of RA metadata services or content negotiation will receive a basic
rights info if they are present in the DOI metadata record

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DOI and rights-related services•DOI is already used as public standard identifier to connect systems
and facilitate some rights-related services, for example:
CrossRef DOIs are used to collect from publishers T&Cs to allow
researchers to access their content for Text and Data mining purposes
CrossRef DOIs are used to collect from publishers access to full text
to be included in iThenticate services for plagiarism and piracy detection
mEDRA DOIs are used by the Italian collective management organisation
as external IDs to communicate with other systems, deliver rights info
and link content to licensing services
EIDR IDs (DOIs) are used in external systems to support rights recovery
and in communications about licenses•In addition, DOIs can also provide direct access to rights data and services anywhere inthe web, through the resolution mechanism
Rights-aware resolution
Context-aware resolution
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CLEARedi use case
• CLEARedi manages certain rights on behalf of represented italian publishers and has
agreements in place with international licensing services
DOIs are used to streamline rights and permissions transactions and rights information
discovery online

Business need

Implemented solution

Create a connection between content,content identifiers, metadata andservice managed by multiple parties

Content in the platform is automaticallyassigned with a DOI name if not already(for the moment books and ISBN-A)

Allow users to reach rights information
where content is discovered

Links to rights and licensing services areadded to DOI resolutions by the system

Disseminate rights information
to other services in standard
and accepted formats

Data available through APIs and content
negotiation in multiple formats (links torights services are returned in the response)

Provide user-controlled accessto the desired service

Rights-aware and Context-aware (multiple)
resolution for each content

6Demo of the CLEARedi use casehttps://erro.dev.cineca.it/errowa/cmr-demo

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To sum up•

DOIs already support multiple services for multiple content industries•

Context-aware (multiple) resolution is a way to provide «selective» access to a
multiplicity of services•

DOIs can be used in different ways in the context of rights management•

Rights-related services are an addition to all the other services delivered through a DOI•

Rights-aware resolution is a specialisation of context-aware resolution, where «rights»
is the context•

There’s generally a separation between the rights and licensing business (rightsholders/rights users) and the identification and access provision business (DOI RA)•Suitable for commercial and non-commercial purposes (CC and OA).

This is all possible exploiting the features of the DOI system, thatevolves thanks to the collaborative work of each and all the DOI
Registration Agencies
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Contacts

Thank you - Grazie

2015

My metadata
Name: Paola
Surname: Mazzucchi
Professional Affiliation: mEDRA/AIE
Role: Project Manager
Email: paola.mazzucchi@aie.it
Twitter: @MetalGoddess
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paolamazzucchi
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