[ckan-discuss] DOI Systems

Wed Nov 30 13:31:03 GMT 2011

DOI is very well used in academia.

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 1:07 PM, David Read <david.read at okfn.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
> Cheers for the info on DOI - I'd not heard of this before, but then
> I'm not in academia.
>
> I guess there are plenty of ways to refer to datasets. The unique URL
> in CKAN is one way, a DOI is another. (Or have I missed the point
> here?)
>
> I agree that it would be useful to cross-reference CKAN's URLs with
> any other system of cataloguing that takes off. The question is
> whether DOI is emerging as the standard in academic data, or are there
> other candidates?
>
> David
>
>> 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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