DOI

Persistent identifier for documents and data, introduced in 2000. A DOI names the object rather than where it is stored, and resolves through doi.org; it is built on the Handle System and fits within the URI system.

Read the specification ↗ doi.org

Part of threads Names that outlive their hosts proposes; Who runs the registry? proposes

builds on

• Handle System standard 1994 [src]
• URI concept 1994 [src]

maintained by

• International DOI Foundation organization 1997 [src]

contributors

• Crossref organization 2000 [src]
  DOI registration agency for scholarly literature

built upon by

• EIDR standard 2010 [src]

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier