"UC's California Digital Library Launches DataCite Archive for Research Data", From Info Today, Inc., Weekly News Digest, 29 March 2010. (DataCite is an IDF Registration Agency.)

"Could DOIs Solve Three Depository Challenges?", From Free Government Information (FGI), Blog, 24 March 2010.

"NamesforLife BrowserTool takes expertise out of the database and puts it right in the browser", From Microbiology Today, George Garrity, February 2010.

"European Initiative to Facilitate Access to Research Data", Press Release announcing partnership among Europe's leading research libraries and technical information providers, 18 March 2009.

mEDRA. "ISBN-A launched in Italy", Press Release, November 2008.

mEDRA. "No time in your first life? Meet mEDRA in Second Life", mEDRA News, 26-03-2008.

See also Additional Press Coverage

"The Internet economy rewards unlimited creativity in the monetization of human action, and fairly often this takes the form of some kind of intermediation. For DNS, monetized intermediation means lying. The innovators who bring us such monetized intermediation do not call what they sell "lies," but in this case it walks like a duck and quacks like one, too.

Paul Vixie, Internet Systems Consortium, What DNS Is Not, ACM Queue, November 5, 2009.

"I wonder if the "HTTP Uber Alles" crowd, if they were active 20 years ago, would be insisting that everything, including that newfangled HTTP protocol, be expressed in the form of a Gopher address, or perhaps FTP or Telnet, or maybe an e-mail address with the standard, adopted by the owner of the address, that the subject line contain the actual protocol intended to be used?"

"I also wonder if, should their side win all its battles, 1000 years from now all URIs in use will be at least 1000 characters long, of which at least 800 of these characters will be fossilized deadwood of obsolete protocols that are preserved as magic incantations to begin a URI. So they'll be something like:

http://ipp.solarsystem.net/earth/galacticgateway.net/andromeda/tachyon .protocol.net/ ...[snip]... /actualsite.actualgalaxy/path-in-site

where "ipp.solarsystem.net", under "http", is the magic indicator of the InterPlanetaryProtocol that became dominant in 2067, and was followed by the actual address being reached by that protocol, starting with its home planet, but then "galacticgateway.net" within "earth" became the magic string to indicate that you are actually using the InterGalacticProtocol which became dominant in 2152, and similarly the "tachyon.protocol.net" signifies the Tachyon Protocol that caught on around 2272."

"User agent identifiers for the browsers people use with their 31st century protocols are similarly long and convoluted, beginning with "Mozilla/5.0" and containing references to MSIE, Gecko, and various other browser names and codenames that were trendy at some point or other over the millennium."

Daniel R Tobias, posting to the IETF "URI Review" mail list, Sept 9 2009.

"In the complete absence of any testimony (metadata) regarding an association, a would-be identifier string is a meaningless sequence of characters. To keep an externally visible but otherwise internal string from being perceived as an identifier by outsiders, for example, it suffices for an organization not to disclose the nature of its association."

John Kunze, ARK Specification.

"People used banks because there were laws and standards that allowed you to move your money easily from one to another. The cloud doesn't have similar laws and standards for moving data. It's important because most cloud-computing companies will go bust, just the same as mainframe computer companies, minicomputer companies and PC suppliers went bust. And, if you're not careful, they're going to take your data down with them."

Serguei Beloussov, 2009, Quoted in "Freedom to move data is vital when it's in the clouds", Jack Scholfield, The Guardian, 17 June 2009.

See also Additional Quotes & Notes