1. Com-ITU/CEPT - January 2016, Copenhagen, Denmark
Digital Object Architecture (DOA) DONA Foundation and ITU Information session
Com-ITU/CEPT - January 2016, Copenhagen, Denmark

2. DOA – Presence, Applications & Use
Global presence
Over 1,000 services built on DOA, in 75 countries, on 6 continents.
Today top-level DOA global root servers receive avg. 200 million resolution requests per month.
Assigned namespaces (“prefix”) +16,000.

3. DOA – Presence, Applications & Use
Users | Countries
US Library of Congress | United States of America
China Internet Network Information Center | China
Office of Publications of the European Community | European Community
Computing & IT Competence Center for Max Planck Society| Germany
Entertainment ID Registry | United States of America
DTIC (Defense Technical Information Center) | United States of America
CAL (Copyright Agency Ltd. - Australia)| Australia
MEDRA (Multilingual European DOI Registration Agency) | Europe
Office of Publications of the European Community (OPOCE) | European Community
German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) | Germany
OECD Publications | France
National Agricultural Library/USDA| United States of America
Australian Dept. of Education, Science, and Training (DEST) - PILIN project etc. | Australia

4. DOA – An open architecture
Vendor-independent
Open source (free of charge)
Non-proprietary system 
Based on official and/or popular standards (e.g. Digital Object Interface Protocol as described in Recommendation ITU-T X.1255) or protocols
Allows all vendors to create add-on products that increase system’s:
flexibility,
functionality,
interoperability,
potential use,
and useful life.
An open architecture which enables the users to customize and extend a system's capabilities to suit individual requirements.
An environment which enables different technologies to interoperate.

5. DOA Features & Benefits
Interoperability of heterogeneous systems - The Digital Object Architecture can be built around existing systems.
Enormous scale - the DOA can process billions of handle records. The DOA makes this enormous data oversight extremely cost efficient and easy to facilitate.
Multilingual support of all types of languages and scripts.
Quality of information - Information becomes a digital object and therefore is resilient and persistent versa broken links of URLs.
Integrity & privacy of data - each Handle record has a public/private key function for digital signature.  

6. DOA in ITU - User experience
Before
DOA integration
After
DOA integration
User
User
Handle ID resolution
handle.itu.int/ /…
ifa.itu.int/itu-t/…
ITU resources: Documentum, MS SQL Server DBs, ftp, MS SharePoint, etc.
ITU resources: Documentum, MS SQL Server DBs, ftp, MS SharePoint, etc.

7. Solution using DOA framework Timeline overview
2013
ITU-T Test signals,+40 digital objects
ITU-T Recommendations supporting 6 languages and various format, digital objects
2014 Q1-2
Patent statements, digital objects
ITU-T active working groups
ITU Library persistent identifiers to digital documents
ITU history portal web pages
ITU-T SGs persistent links (e.g. SG 15 liaison statements, Work programme, …)
2014 Q3-4
List of persistent identifiers for web pages and documents related to the Study Groups
ITU-T Formal description resolution system,+1500 digital objects
2015
ITU-T Recommendations multilingual search tool
ITU-T Recommendations and selected handbooks DVD-ROM with persistent links
ITU Publications persistent identifiers

8. Solution using DOA framework ITU Library and archives
Past challenges:
Need persistent identifier for its digitized documents
Need persistent identifier for web pages
Registered under prefix “ / /”
Web pages and digitized documents are associated with a persistent identifier, such as:
ITU conferences collection webpage
International Telegraph Conference (Paris, 1865)

9. Leveraging DOA framework for new features Powerful search tool – PART 1/2
ITU-T Recommendations search tool:
Index metadata in six languages
Room for tagging Recommendations
Prototype

10. ITU and DOA Milestones Project Document for MoU signed
MP GHR (MPA) Testbed Agreement
Adoption of first international standard for DOA – ITU-T X.1255
September 2013
Project Document for MoU signed
May 2011
ITU-DONA Foundation
signed Amendment 1 to GHR Agreement for Prefix 11
September 2015
CNRI-DONA Foundation signed transition agreement
30 May 2014
DONA Foundation
established
January 2014
ITU-DONA Foundation
signed Master Framework Agreement
June 2014
ITU-CNRI signed Service Agreement for Prefix 11
February 2013
ITU-CNRI signed MoU
August 2008
2008
2013
2014
2015
1= CNRI allocated experimental Prefix 11 to ITU
2= Local Handle Server set up in ITU
3= ITU-CNRI MoU Project Document
4= In-house development (proof of concept integration DOA)
From Sessions of Council, all reports by ITU SecGen to Council on Internet had a separate section on the DOA. Many other reports/presentations on DOA were made to CWG-Internet
1= Handle Bridge developed: system to assign globally unique persistent identifiers
2= Assigned +200k persistent unique identifiers to ITU-T resources and ITU History Portal.
3= Deploy a new server architecture to support the DOA services and applications
4= Autonomous Naming Authorities setup for each Sector and General Secretariat
5= Setup MPA testbed environment

11. ITU and DONA FOUNDATION
DONA Foundation Secretariat
Intellectual property (License Rights) for ITU
Public policy issues
Multi primary administrator
Outreach efforts with the DONA Foundation
Reconstitution event
Global identification resource