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Huh I forgot that DOIs are meant for more than just academic journals. Do DOIs still make sense if we have web3? Would the future of DOIs be similar to a filec
by yawnxyz 5y ago
Huh I forgot that DOIs are meant for more than just academic journals.
Do DOIs still make sense if we have web3? Would the future of DOIs be similar to a filecoin kind of system, instead of using resolvers and organizations like CrossRef?
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- kamray23 5y agoStill not sure if we'll have web3. It kind of seems like a great way to suddenly make 50% of web infrastructure carry nothing but transaction data from node to node, and when you think about it with private data storage it makes laws like the GDPR unenforceable so there might be considerable state backlash. Well, we'll see how it develops. A more important concern is whether we need DOIs with the current W3C standards for Semantic Web. We already have a multitude of absolutely giant databases such as Wikidata, but also many others linking together semantic information from all over the web into a giant machine and human readable network: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q686797 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q686797. Do you really need an incomprehensible centralized system such as DOIs when you have a multitude of separate incomprehensible IDs linked together by human readable semantics?