[ckan-discuss] DOI Systems

Wed Nov 30 14:19:15 GMT 2011

You will often see a paper referenced by DOI - it is a digital object
identifier as well as a way to find the paper, via the DOI resolver.

Here is an example:

10.1186/1758-2946-3-47

The first part - 10.1186 - belongs to and identifies the publisher.
The second part is specified by the publisher for a particular
publication they produce.

You can resolve it by going to:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1758-2946-3-47

So I suppose the next step is finding out how CKAN could mint DOIs.
That I do not know, but the info at crossref.org (the people that run
DOI) should be helpful there.

Mark

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Lucy Chambers <lucy.chambers at okfn.org> wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Mark MacGillivray <mark at odaesa.com> wrote:
>> 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?)
>
> That's exactly it, glad I brought it up. Perhaps Mark can fill you in
> on some of the details of how they are used?
>
> All the best,
>
> Lucy
>
>>>
>>> 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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