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	THE USE OF DIGITAL OBJECT IDENTIFIERS (DOI) TO REGISTER ONTOLOGIES A method for the protection of intellectual knowledge formalized in OWL by Maurizio Iacovella and Luca Severini © 2006 Copyright Epistematica Srl DOI 2006: 10.1683/ab0000

A DOI (Digital Object Identifier) is a standard that allows the persistent identification, inside a digital network, of any object of intellectual property. The advantages of this standard are: the persistence, actionable in the network (that permits, thanks to a resolution service, the association the activation of an Internet resource to a DOI) and the semantic interoperability, that allows the association between a DOI and metadata that describes the characteristics of the identified object. A DOI can therefore appear inside the manifestation of an intellectual activity similar to a ISBN code appearing inside the cover of a book, with the difference that a DOI code, thanks to its actionability, permits access to the internet and one or more pieces of information that were associated with the object by the person that registered it. This information could be for example; a web page to buy the book or the book itself in electronic format.

Also for an Ontology, as for every intellectual work, can be associated with a DOI, permitting therefore the unique identification in the network. In addition, thanks to the actionability of DOI's, you can refer directly to its using the resolution system of DOI's.

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