[ckan-discuss] DOI Systems

Thu Dec 1 12:30:58 GMT 2011

Just to say this has already been mentioned (and discussed) a few
times re CKAN and we even have an existing ticket:

<http://trac.ckan.org/ticket/1429>

If we want academics to use CKAN, DOIs (or something similar) are
probably a must.

Rufus

On 30 November 2011 12:55, Lucy Chambers <lucy.chambers at okfn.org> wrote:
> Hi Data Management expert chaps,
>
> Laura Newman and I went to an interesting talk yesterday about Open
> Data in academic contexts at Cambridge University.
>
> One of the things that was suggested to incentivise sharing and
> production of resources was to increase recognition of Datasets and
> digital materials as equal in value to a written paper.
>
> It was suggested that promoting the use of DOIs (http://www.doi.org/)
> may be one way to make datasets traceable, distinguishable and hence -
> citable.
>
> Is this something worth looking into further as part of CKAN, how we
> can support people in this?
>
> Apologies if this has already been raised!
>
> Lucy
>
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