> Having a single, 'official' ID (whatever it looks like) is better than searching by metadata. As someone who works with scholarly data, having IDs for things

> Having a single, 'official' ID (whatever it looks like) is better than searching by metadata. As someone who works with scholarly data, having IDs for things is absolutely invaluable. There's a lot you can do with DOIs quickly and easily that would be prohibitively difficult if you had to use human-added metadata.