[Tdwg-guid] Demise of Phyloinformatics journal
Renato De Giovanni
renato at cria.org.br
Fri Nov 24 16:54:24 CET 2006
Rod,
Thanks for sharing with us the information. I already imagined that
things like that could happen, but it's always better to argue having
real examples.
Anyway, just in case someone reading the story decides to blame URLs,
I just wanted to say that in my opinion the main issue here is not
the technology or the GUID format being used. It's the business model
and the management strategy.
I can easily imagine similar things happening to DOIs, LSIDs or other
kinds of issued GUIDs if the institution(s) behind them simply
disappear.
Best Regards,
Renato
--
IT Researcher
CRIA - Reference Center on Environmental Information
http://www.cria.org.br/
On 24 Nov 2006 at 13:37, Roderic Page wrote:
> The Open Access web-only journal "Phyloinformatics" seems to have
> disappeared, with the Internet address http://www.phyloinformatics.org
> now up for sale. This means the articles have just disappeared!
>
> There weren't many papers published, but some were interesting and have
> been cited in the mainstream literature.
>
> This also illustrates the problems with linking to digital resources
> using URLs, as opposed to identifiers such as DOIs. With the loss of
> the domain name, this journal has effectively died.
>
> A sobering lesson...
>
> Regards
>
> Rod
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