<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">That is very interesting, Gregor. Apparently it is up to the registration agency on how much they charge (and not the central DOI). There are currently 8 agencies for different areas with the German TIB issuing DOI prefixes for "r<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 11px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 4px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 4px; ">egistration of scientific primary and secondary data" at the cost of 250€ per prefix (which allows you to create as many DOIs as you like). </span><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 4px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 4px;"><br></span></font></div><div><div><a href="http://www.doi.org/handbook_2000/registration_agencies.html#8.2">http://www.doi.org/handbook_2000/registration_agencies.html#8.2</a></div><div><a href="http://www.doi.org/registration_agencies.html">http://www.doi.org/registration_agencies.html</a></div><div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 11px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 4px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 4px; ">It would also be possible to setup a new registration agency for biodiversity data if we feel this is more suited to our needs. There are several costs associated with this though, an annual membership fee ($35.000), a "franchise fee" for each newly registered name ($0.04/doi) and a maintenance fee ($0.005/doi). So this is clearly much more expensive and would be around 9 million dollars each year for 200 million occurrence records in GBIF.</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 4px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 4px;"><a href="http://www.doi.org/handbook_2000/registration_agencies.html#8.8">http://www.doi.org/handbook_2000/registration_agencies.html#8.8</a></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 4px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 4px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 4px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 4px;">So I guess this is what was investigated before and which is far too expensive. But it should be worth consulting the TIB registry, 250€ per publisher doesnt sound bad at all.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 4px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 4px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 4px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 4px;"><br></span></font></div><div>Markus</div><div><br></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 4px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 4px; ">PS: I am expressing my personal thoughts in this conversation and not GBIFs official policy.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 4px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 4px;"><br></span></font></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On Nov 25, 2008, at 6:26, Gregor Hagedorn wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>I previously concurred with arguments against DOI on the basis of<br>cost. However, is this correct?<br><br><a href="http://www.tib-hannover.de/en/the-tib/doi-registration-agency/">http://www.tib-hannover.de/en/the-tib/doi-registration-agency/</a> states<br>a yearly fee of 250 EUR for the publisher, not a per-object fee. That<br>is considerably less than the Total Cost of Ownership of running<br>custom-designed LSID software. DOI is well established and many people<br>already know that it can be looked up on the web ...<br><br>Gregor<br>-- <br>---------------------------------<br>Gregor Hagedorn<br>Heinrich-Seidel-Str. 2<br>12167 Berlin<br>skype: g.hagedorn<br><br>This message is sent on a personal basis and does not constitute an<br>activity of the German Federal Government or its research<br>institutions. 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