[ckan-discuss] DOI Systems

Wed Nov 30 14:40:01 GMT 2011

Related: http://inkdroid.org/journal/2011/04/25/dois-as-linked-data/  
and a recent paper I read but forgot the title and haven't bookmarked  
it (the paper compared DOIs, URIs, URNs and many more identifier  
systems how well they are suited for scientific data in terms of  
usability, persistence, etc. - if anyone remembers, please share ;)

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	Michael
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On 30 Nov 2011, at 14:19, Mark MacGillivray wrote:

> 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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>>>>> Skype: lucyfediachambers
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