[Esip-preserve] Citations guideline revisions

Bruce Barkstrom brbarkstrom at gmail.com
Mon Jul 25 21:31:48 EDT 2011


There is a legitimate concern on the part of libraries that publishers
seek "monopoly
rents" and are reducing the ability of libraries to support the full
range of opinion
in the community.

Bruce B.

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Mark A. Parsons <parsonsm at nsidc.org> wrote:
> Yes, use as many identifiers as you like, but you should probably only use one in a citation. The publishers would probably prefer that be a DOI (at the moment at least).
>
> Cheers,
>
> -m.
> On 25 Jul 2011, at 12:22 PM, Bruce Barkstrom wrote:
>
>> One question that I don't think we've addressed is whether having a single
>> source of redirection will decrease the probability of losing information due
>> to the loss of multi-site replication.  Going to the multi-identifier approach
>> would be more consistent with multi-site distribution of locators.
>>
>> Bruce b.
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Curt Tilmes <Curt.Tilmes at nasa.gov> wrote:
>>> Bob (and Mark) recently made a number of very good revisions to
>>> the Citations provider guidelines:
>>>
>>> http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Interagency_Data_Stewardship/Citations/provider_guidelines
>>>
>>> In particular, Bob added reference to ARKs and Handles in addition to
>>> DOIs.  I think those additions are warranted and helpful in most
>>> places, based on our discussions of ARKs and Handles.
>>>
>>> One place I think we perhaps need some additional discussion is in the
>>> "cluster recommendation" part:
>>>
>>> Old:
>>>
>>> The most broadly accepted locator in the scientific publishing world
>>> is the Digital Object Identifier (DOI). The Cluster recommends the use
>>> of DOIs to persistently locate full data sets or collections. Other
>>> locators and identifiers may be more appropriate at the record level.
>>>
>>> New:
>>>
>>> The most broadly accepted locators in the scientific publishing world
>>> are the Digital Object Identifier (DOI), the Archival Resource Key
>>> (ARK), and Handles. The Cluster recommends the use of DOIs, ARKs, or
>>> Handles to persistently locate full data sets or collections. Other
>>> locators and identifiers may be more appropriate for locating
>>> individual records or files.
>>>
>>>
>>> Are we, as a cluster, now recommending DOIs, ARKs, or Handles equally?
>>>
>>> Curt
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