(sort of) related to this old thread... the DOI resolver site went down today because they apparently forgot to renew the domain, and the author of this blog post from CrossRef (who runs it) suggests relying on *us* for persistent identifier stability: http://crosstech.crossref.org/2015/01/problems-with-dx-doi-org-on-january-20...
He notes "the “persistence” [of persistent identifiers] is the result of a social contract" -- indeed.
best, Phoebe
On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 9:20 AM, Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
My experience is that to create a DOI you need to provide a basic level of metadata for each item rather than simply registering a target URL - I'm not sure how curated this needs to be, and it can probably be autogenerated, but there might be problems scaling it and doing it on demand. There is also a short delay before they become active at the central registry. (I've certainly seen cases where a publisher has issued a DOI then announced it to the world before CrossRef are able to resolve it, and it takes a day or two before the DOI works...)
As a result, I don't think we could generate these on the fly and use a URL-shortener type approach - there might be problems with generating that many of them, and they would not reliably work at the moment they're generated.
Andrew.
On 30 December 2014 at 21:53, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
Digital object identifiers are an international standard for document identification:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier
The WMF could be a DOI registrant, and resolve DOIs in the form 10.NNNN.Qnnnnn for Wikidata items, or, say, 10.NNNN.en:609232908 for:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_King_of_Rome&oldid=609232...
Where 's the best on-wiki (Meta?) place to propose this?
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