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--- On Thu, 14 Apr 2011, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: > On 4/14/2011 9:09 AM, Rick Johnson wrote: >> I will investigate further how we could become a DOI registry agency >> ourselves. > > To be clear, you wouldn't want to be what I call a "registrar" (not sure if > that's what DOI calls them), which is a much higher-level infrastructural > agency like CrossRef or DataCite, that is responsible for a huge chunk of > DOI's with it's own high-level DOI namespace. That's correct. You probably don't want to become a registration agency. To support user's creation of individual DOIs via our EZID service, we (CDL) pay thousands of dollars annually. -John > > I am not sure _what_ you'd want to be. If going through CrossRef, then I > guess you'd want to join CrossRef. If going through DataCite, then I suspect > the EZID service is sufficient and there's no reason to do anything else. And > of course you could do both. Or something else entirely that I don't > understand, I probably still don't have the whole picture of DOI > possibilities. > > Jonathan >