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Re: [Discuss-DOI] Killing 2 birds
Eric:
uri:doi:w:10.1000/131
Interesting suggestion - if we really do have to be up front with the Work v
Manifestation distinction. I can see that this could be used for citation
purposes, but in actual usage wouldn't
uri:doi:w:10.1000/131
uri:doi:p:10.1000/131
uri:doi:d:10.1000/131
all get resolved by the Handle system to the same URI (typically a URL)? And BTW
is there any notion that we would extend this scheme as
uri:doi:w:10.1000/131
uri:doi:p:10.1000/131
uri:doi:d:html:10.1000/131
uri:doi:d:pdf:10.1000/131
uri:doi:d:tex:10.1000/131
uri:doi:d:etc:etc:10.1000/131
Still don't really understand if there is any difference between 'p' & 'd' - so
if we need to distinguish between the abstract and the real, wouldn't we rather
use 'm' for manifestation?
As for print/web syntax suitability, AP have answered that by opting for DOIs of
the form
uri:doi:10.1006/geno.1998.4536
short enough (and legible enough) to be printed on our journal articles and to
be reproduced in citations, especially with article by article publications
where we may not have page numbers. And they don't require hex encoding, or
entifying.
Tony
ps/
Are you suggesting that we have to use "uri" rather than "urn" because the DOI
is not yet registered as a URN namespace ID with IANA?
From: Eric Hellman <eric@hellman.net> AT ~internet on 23/03/99 14:37 EST
To: <discuss-doi@doi.org> AT ~internet@CCMAIL
cc: (bcc: Tony Hammond/AP/LDN/HARCOURT)
Subject: [Discuss-DOI] Killing 2 birds
Here's a modest suggestion on the DOI syntax.
First of all, note that the DOI syntax, as last proposed, is not compatible
with being a URI without encoding. Note also that it is inappropriate for
non-digital representations, (such as print) because non-printing and
ambiguous characters are allowed. There is a need for a clearly defined
extented syntax for representing the DOI in URI's and in print.
Second, note that once metadata frameworks get decided, it will be easy and
fast (assuming the metadata is done competently) for machines to look up
metadata such as primary type, given the "pure" DOI string. Thus, for
machine use, the proposed syntax addition ( "(W)" and the like) is
redundant.
Nonetheless, the primary type is useful to humans.
A DOI-URI syntax prefix can address this issue without touching the "pure
DOI", which frequently will require encoding anyway.
something like:
uri:doi:w:10.1000/131
would be the URI-DOI, suitable for printing and use on the web
while
"10.1000/131"
HEX(31302E3030302F313331)
Binary(0011000100110000001011100011000000110000001100000010111100110001001100110
0110001)
are representations of the "pure" doi, suitable for machine use.
Eric
Eric Hellman
Openly Informatics, Inc.
http://www.openly.com/ Tools for 21st Century Scholarly Publishing
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