I second Rod's "V. cool!" proclamation! I think this has the potential to solve a lot of problems with DOIs (particularly for the old literature). It doesn't solve all the problems (e.g., we still need to define the article-level units within BHL content, and we'll still need to establish a system of GUIDs that can be applied to sub-article units, such as treatments), but in the vast majority of cases, the DOIs will be the ticket into the services of CrossRef.
I desperately want to comment on several points made in this thread (which I've only read just now), but I'm currently travelling, so I'll chime in later.
Aloha,
Rich
P.S. Question for Rod/Chris/anyone else concerning DOIs: Does the annual fee only apply to the ability to mint DOIs within a given year, or does it also apply to resolving them? Put another way, if BHL stops paying its annual fee sometime in the future, will the already-minted DOI's be resolvable into perpetuity, or will they stop being resolved at that point?
From: tdwg-content-bounces@lists.tdwg.org [mailto:tdwg-content-bounces@lists.tdwg.org] On Behalf Of Roderic Page Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 5:42 AM To: Chris Freeland Cc: tdwg-content@lists.tdwg.org; Paul Murray Subject: Re: [tdwg-content] GUIDs for publications (usages and names)
On 5 Jan 2011, at 15:25, Chris Freeland wrote:
And following on re: DOIs, BHL has become a member of CrossRef and starting in February will begin assigning DOIs first to our monographs & then on to journal content. There is an annual fee for membership and then a fee for every DOI assigned. BHL is absorbing these costs for community benefit.
Chris
V. cool!
Regards
Rod
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