[OWW-SC] page DOIs

[Julius B. Lucks]

Well it seems to me that if we call them DOI's, but they are not  
resolvable by dx.doi.org (or some other doi resolver), then they  
might wind up juts confusing people.  Since DOI's have an  
infrastructure surrounding them, I would think we would want to try  
to plug into that as much as possible in order to be 'official'.

What is the big cost associated with DOI's?  Is it registration of  
the numbers, hardware costs, or both?  Perhaps if we don't  
automatically register every page, but only pages that people request  
to be registered, we could keep the cost down.  Also, what  
organization would we contact to possibly get DOI registration  
donated to us?  I wouldn't mind pursuing this, as I think it is a  
very important issue for us in terms of 'legitimizing' oww content.

Cheers,

Julius

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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.
>
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