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RFC Digital Object Identifier SOW for Community Input

2014-09-03 20:24:22
The IAOC intends to seek bids for a project to assign Digital Object 
Identifiers to RFCs and desires 
community input on a draft DOI Statement of Work.  The SOW is located here:  
<http://iaoc.ietf.org/rfps.html>.

The community comment period ends 21 September 2014.  The IAOC will consider 
all comments 
received during this period.

Overview

The RFC Editor intends to assign a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to each RFC 
in the series. 
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-iab-doi describes the motivation for and 
expected use of 
DOIs in the series. As that document states, assigning DOIs entails extracting 
information from the 
series to date to be used as input to a bulk registration for existing RFCs, 
and changes to the 
production system to automatically acquire and incorporate DOIs into future 
RFCs.

Deliverables/Tasks

The developer will work with the RFC Editors’ programming staff to:

•       Identify the data needed to apply for a DOI for an RFC, and for each 
data element, identify the 
        appropriate source for that data. 
•       Build a program to extract that data from the existing series necessary 
to apply for a DOI for 
        each existing RFC.
•       Construct any additional needed automation in making a bulk application 
for those DOIs 
•       Integrate the automated acquisition of DOIs for future RFCs into the 
workflow for producing 
        that RFC 
•       Construct any needed automation for updating the existing index, info 
pages, and the XML 
        citation library to include the assigned DOIs 
•       Locate existing DOIs for the documents from other organizations that 
are in our XML citation 
        libraries (particularly bibxml2) and update the entry in that library.

Deliverables include:

The project will automate a bulk update to the following products to reflect 
the DOI information for 
existing RFCs.

•       http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc-ref.txt
•       The bibxml products
•       The individual RFC information pages (e.g. 
http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6635 ) 
•       rfc-index.xml
•       rfc-index.txt
•       rfc-index.html and rfc-index2.html

The project will also automate the addition of the acquired DOI for each new 
RFC into each of the 
above products.

All information submitted in response to this announcement is voluntary and may 
be used in the 
development of the SOW.

Thanks for your continuing advice and support.

Ray Pelletier 
IETF Administrative Director 

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