[Esip-preserve] Need for recommended best practice for DOI minting?

Bruce Barkstrom brbarkstrom at gmail.com
Sun Sep 9 16:20:10 EDT 2012


with the addendum to Frew's comment that "... or is needed for any
practical use now".

Bruce B.

On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 1:11 PM, James Frew <frew at bren.ucsb.edu> wrote:

> On 2012-09-07 10:26, Ruth Duerr wrote:
>
>> While the ESIP citation guidelines do talk briefly about best practices
>> in minting DOI's - specifically
>>
>> "Best practice is that the suffix of the identifier does not include a
>> reference to the archive in case the data are moved from the original
>> location where the persistent identifier was assigned initially."
>> ...
>>
>> Is a more comprehensive best practices warranted? If so, what should it
>> say?
>>
>
> Informally, something like:
>
> "Don't encode anything in a DOI that won't be true 100 years from now."
>
> /Frew
>
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