[open-bibliography] DOIs and openbiblio

Wed Feb 2 10:22:11 UTC 2011

Must admit I've always been everso slightly confused by the
relationship between DOI's and the Global Handle Registry. The IDF
seems very keen to say that DOI's are more than just Handles, but
every time I read http://www.doi.org/factsheets/DOIHandle.html I'm
left with the feeling that the "much more" could be easily
(transparently?) replaced with something open and equally usable.

I'd be interested in knowing what could be provided using just Handles
and skipping the DOI middle-man. I'd certainly be careful not to throw
the handle baby out with the DOI bathwater.

all very vague on this tho, and would really love someone to fill in
my gaps with it.

Ian.

On 2 February 2011 09:24, Adrian Pohl <adrian.pohl at okfn.org> 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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