[Tdwg-guid] DOIs and persistence -- when DOIs go bad

[Roderic Page]

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 at 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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email:    r.page at bio.gla.ac.uk
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