Re: [Tdwg-guid] DOIs and persistence -- when DOIs go bad
Yes, but the question is whether we all have to do this separately or not.
Put another way, the Poissonia paper mentioned earlier exists in TreeBASE, and I've been mapping TreeBASE literature to external ids (e.g., Google Scholar, DOIs, etc.). Now, if IPNI does the same this is duplicated effort, plus we might each miss some mappings found by the other.
I guess what I'm suggesting is two things:
1. A central place where anybody who makes a mapping can upload that mapping (or have it harvested automatically)
2. A central place (same as 1 above) where anybody can go to ask whether there is a mapping for an item of literature (or an identifier).
Of course, this can all be done in RDF, but RDF just gives as a means for expressing the mapping, not the actual mapping itself.
I use "central" loosely, it might be a case of few brokers for the major taxonomic groups/databases.
Rod
On 26 May 2006, at 11:58, Kevin Richards wrote:
Isn't this what RDF metadata for literature gives us? Ie a semantic web of literature. Kevin
Roderic Page r.page@bio.gla.ac.uk 05/26/06 9:37 PM >>>
It would be cool to have a GUID "broker" that, say could take a DOI and
say "well, IPNI calls this reference xxxxxx, and MOBOT have it as yyyyyy, and there's a handle hdl:zzzzz for it, etc." It could also mimic CrossRef by taking bibliographic data and attempting to match that to an existing GUID. In otherwords, it would be an OpenURL resolver.
Regards
Rod
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