http://www.doi.org/handbook_2000/registration_agencies.html#8.2

http://www.doi.org/registration_agencies.html

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.

http://www.doi.org/handbook_2000/registration_agencies.html#8.8

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.

Markus

PS: I am expressing my personal thoughts in this conversation and not GBIFs official policy.

On Nov 25, 2008, at 6:26, Gregor Hagedorn wrote:

I previously concurred with arguments against DOI on the basis of
cost. However, is this correct?

http://www.tib-hannover.de/en/the-tib/doi-registration-agency/ states
a yearly fee of 250 EUR for the publisher, not a per-object fee. That
is considerably less than the Total Cost of Ownership of running
custom-designed LSID software. DOI is well established and many people
already know that it can be looked up on the web ...

Gregor
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