[open-bibliography] DOIs and openbiblio

Wed Feb 2 10:41:57 UTC 2011

Addressing your second point - the argument is that DOIs address the common problem of the sustainability of resolving mechanisms through collective responsibility based on mutual vested interest.

I should point out that only a small subset of the capability of the DOI (Handle) system is widely used - it also has the capacity to carry a richer metadata payload. So any statement about DOI specifically, coming from this initiative, should probably take care to be precise about which aspect of DOI (most probably the identifier, and possibly the resolver mechanism) it is addressing.

Paul

On 2 Feb 2011, at 09:24, Adrian Pohl wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Isabel Holroyd of biab online asked me how the DOI system[1] should be
> assessed in the light of the Principles on Open Bibliographic Data or
> Open Knowledge in general.
> 
> In my opinion, this question isn't that easy to answer because on one
> side DOIs aren't open in the sense that not anybody can provide DOIs
> but on the other side they are open in the sense that anybody can use,
> aggregate and disseminate already published DOIs. And it is this open
> use and reuse of bibliographic data the openbiblio principles adress.
> So, I believe, you can't deduce a recommendation to use or not use
> DOIs from the principles. As I am not that familiar with the DOI
> system, there might be other problems with it - e.g. with long-term
> availibility of a free resolving mechanism or other.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> All the best
> Adrian
> 
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier
> 
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