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DOI exists since 1997, which is pretty much since forever in internet time. Figshare on the other hand, not so much.
by trurl42 13y ago
DOI exists since 1997, which is pretty much since forever in internet time.
Figshare on the other hand, not so much.
- CJefferson 13y agoYes, I don't trust either figshare or github to be here in 10 years (there was a time when I thought sourceforge would be around for ever, now I keep expecting to see it disappear any day now).
- toomuchtodo 13y agoWhy don't they partner with the Internet Archive? Its specifically structured to be a long term archival/reference system.
- capnrefsmmat 13y agoFigshare is mirrored by several universities in the CLOCKSS scheme: http://figshare.com/blog/Ensuring%20persistence%20on%20figshare/25 http://figshare.com/blog/Ensuring%20persistence%20on%20figsh... Twelve research universities keep copies of all the data and will make it publicly available should Figshare implode. Other data repositories, like Dryad, do the same thing, and grant agencies with data deposition requirements usually require you to deposit data somewhere that has a long-term plan to ensure access. So as long as the twelve universities manage to update all the DOIs to point at the new locations, Figshare DOIs should be reliable.