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> An obligation to keep the links up to date and a plan for what happens if the publisher suddenly vanishes into thin air. It's good to hear that scholars are
by cooper12 11y ago
> An obligation to keep the links up to date and a plan for what happens if the publisher suddenly vanishes into thin air.
It's good to hear that scholars are getting together and trying to mitigate the volatility of URLs. I'll definitely need to read more on the subject to understand the pros and cons so thank you for your introduction in the article; many specialist blogs tend to only write for their specific audience. It seems like DOIs are an ample solution as long as they aren't a single point of failure.
- afandian 11y agoCrossref's been around for 15 years (and DOIs longer than that). The Crosstech blog has a lot of posts on the subject. You can start here http://crosstech.crossref.org/category/identifiers http://crosstech.crossref.org/category/identifiers Here's a short list of posts that will give some background: http://crosstech.crossref.org/2015/06/rehashing-pids-without-stabbing-myself-in-the-eyeball.html http://crosstech.crossref.org/2015/06/rehashing-pids-without... http://crosstech.crossref.org/2015/03/january-2015-doi-outage-followup-report.html http://crosstech.crossref.org/2015/03/january-2015-doi-outag... http://crosstech.crossref.org/2013/09/dois-unambiguously-and-persistently-identify-published-trustworthy-citable-online-scholarly-literature-right.html http://crosstech.crossref.org/2013/09/dois-unambiguously-and... http://crosstech.crossref.org/2010/03/dois_and_linked_data_some_conc.html http://crosstech.crossref.org/2010/03/dois_and_linked_data_s...