[OWW-SC] page DOIs

[Drew Endy]

Why does it cost so much?


On Sep 18, 2007, at 2:38 PM, Austin Che wrote:

> Drew Endy <endy at MIT.EDU> mumbled mindlessly:
>
>> Austin,
>>
>> This looks interesting.  But, what is the DOI of the page (in your
>> example)?
>>
>> Can I share "doi: oww70777" in order to point people to this page?
>
>     To be clear, it's not a "doi." You would have to reference
>     http://doi.openwetware.org/oww70777
>
>     We could just as easily make it
>     http://foo.openwetware.org/oww70777
>
>     The only reason it says doi is because this is social engineering
>     and not a technical solution over what currently exists.
>
> "Julius B. Lucks" <julius at younglucks.com> spake sagely:
>> This is interesting.  How would you construct the DOI for an  
>> arbitrary
>> oww page - through the oldid?  How would we make oww DOI's  work with
>> real doi resolvers (like dx.doi.org)?  Do we have to  'register' oww
>> DOI's, or an oww DOI schema anywhere to make them more  official?
>
>     Yes the oldid is a unique id for each revision and you can just
>     use that. To get real DOIs and make them official like you're
>     talking about costs $25K/year.
>
> -- 
> Austin Che           <austin at csail.mit.edu>          (617)253-5899
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