This document discusses the ETH Zurich DOI Desk, which was established between 2008-2012 as part of a Swiss collaboration project. It serves as the registration agency for research data in Switzerland, assigning DOIs and monitoring their use. The desk is a member of DataCite and CrossRef and follows technical standards to register DOIs through its Handle Server and integrate them into the global DOI system. It outlines the workflows and requirements for clients to register and manage DOIs, such as providing Dublin Core metadata and ensuring digital objects are accessible via URLs. Examples of clients include the ZORA open access repository and World Glacier Monitoring Service.

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DOIs as standard persistent identifier and best practice
in Swiss Open Access repositories
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The ETH Zurich DOI Desk

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 established between 2008 and 2012
as part of the innovation and collaboration project
e-lib.ch: Swiss Electronic Library
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ETH Zurich DOI Desk

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Clients

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DOI registration 2009-2013
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• 27 services

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Member of DataCite
Member of
DataCite
Member of
CrossRef
Member of
CrossRef
DOI registration
agency
Registration agency
for research data
International
DOI Foundation
Swiss DOI
registration office

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Technical Infrastructure
Registrant 2
Registrant 1
ETH DOI
Management
Manual input
Handle Server
DOIs/URLs
CNRI Global
Handle
System
DOI
requests
metadata
DataCite
MDS
OAI-PMH

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Workflow I
DOI
Landing page
+ object
OAI-PMH
interface
DOI management
ETH Zurich
Global
DOI system
Researcher

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 Client publishes
metadata via
OAI-PMH,
including DOI +
URL
 Metadata format
= Dublin Core
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Workflow I

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Workflow I

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Workflow I

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Workflow I

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Workflow II

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Workflow II

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Monitoring

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Is based on the DataCite «Business Models Principles»
(doi:10.5438/0007) and defines
 Requirements for the DOI user
 Requirements for the digital objects
 Requirements for metadata
 Requirements for the storage system
www.library.ethz.ch/en/doi-desk  DOI-Policy
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DOI Policy

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 DOI User
 Institution from the Swiss academic and research sector
 Digital objects
 Primary data, secondary data (publications, grey literature)
 Accessible at any time via URL/HTTP
 Access restrictions are to be avoided
 Produced according to specialist standards
 Described with metadata
 File format is open but should enable long-term archiving
 Objects should not be altered; new versions receive new DOIs
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Requirements

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 Metadata
 The DataCite mandatory set of metadata must be provided as a
minimum with every DOI object
 Creator
 Title
 Publisher
 PublicationYear
 Metadata will be searchable in the DataCite MDS and other portals
 Storage System
 Clients must save objects on a trustworthy service
 Immediate updates when URL location changes
 Deleted objects must be directed to a Tombstone Page
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Requirements

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 Description of service
 Description of workflow
 Cost model
 Process for “deletions”
 DOI Syntax
 Metadata Schema
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Service Level Agreements
doi:10.3523/wrtu13.56799
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 Advising prospective clients on
data citation and publication
 DataCite Policy and Best
Practices Working Group
 Regular newsletter service
(starting June 2014)
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Outreach and Dissemination of Best Practices

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Example I: ZORA

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Example II: World Glacier Monitoring Service

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doi@library.ethz.ch
www.library.ethz.ch/en/doi-desk
www.datacite.org
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Contacts