[tdwg-content] GUIDs for publications (usages and names)

[Richard Pyle]

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?

 

 

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[mailto:tdwg-content-bounces at lists.tdwg.org] On Behalf Of Roderic Page
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 5:42 AM
To: Chris Freeland
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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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