[ckan-discuss] DOI Systems

[Michael Hausenblas]

> ... 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 ;)


Thanks to a related paper suggestion by Aleksander who mailed me off- 
list I was now able to find it again:

[[
On the utility of identification schemes for digital earth science  
data: an assessment and recommendations
]]


http://www.springerlink.com/content/52760gq3h200gw38/


Good and comprehensive review, I suggest you have a look at that as  
well, Lucy ...

Cheers,
	Michael
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On 30 Nov 2011, at 14:40, Michael Hausenblas wrote:

>
> 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 ;)
>
> Cheers,
> 	Michael
> --
> Dr. Michael Hausenblas, Research Fellow
> LiDRC - Linked Data Research Centre
> DERI - Digital Enterprise Research Institute
> NUIG - National University of Ireland, Galway
> Ireland, Europe
> Tel. +353 91 495730
> http://linkeddata.deri.ie/
> http://sw-app.org/about.html
>
> 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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>>>>>> Community Coordinator
>>>>>> Open Knowledge Foundation
>>>>>> http://okfn.org/
>>>>>> Skype: lucyfediachambers
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