[ckan-discuss] DOI Systems

Wed Nov 30 15:10:49 GMT 2011

interesting discussion, thank you

I might add that the DataCite grouping (who cooperate with CrossRef but are not identical with it) is a good source of information, too, viz their name :-)

DataCite
http://datacite.org/

cheers
Claudia

On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:19:15 +0000, 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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