Falsehoods Programmers believe about DOIs | Pardalotus

peter.suber's bookmarks 2024-11-07

Summary:

"DOIs, or Digital Object Identifiers, are everywhere, for a given value of ’everywhere’. They are the identifiers used to identify and link research outputs, and a lot more besides.

Humans are good at spotting patterns, and with something as ubiquitous as DOIs, there are plenty of patterns to spot. However, with hundreds of millions of DOIs and decades of history, it pays not to make generalisations.

These all cropped up in my 10 years at Crossref. Either observed in the scholarly community using DOIs, or when writing software to find and handle DOIs.

This post is aimed at developers working with DOIs for the first time. The DOI Handbook is an excellent detailed document that anyone working with DOIs should read...."

Link:

https://pardalotus.tech/posts/2024-10-02-falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-dois/

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oa.new oa.dois oa.pids oa.standards oa.metadata oa.misunderstandings

Date tagged:

11/07/2024, 10:55

Date published:

11/07/2024, 05:55