Falsehoods Programmers believe about DOIs
Joe Wass,
Pardalotus,
Nov 07, 2024
This is an informative post about digital object identifiers (DOI) and, indirectly, the Handle system. It's set up as a series of myths about DOI, which it then addresses. DOI was originally intended as a sort of permanent URL system (permaurl) for academic publications, so that even if the source URL changed, the URLs defined for the paper as a DOI would still allow users to read the paper. This guide is intended to be helpful (and it is!) but I also read it as a documentation of the degradation of DOI over time, as it depends on the goodwill and compliance of publishers, which has always been in short supply. I believe that at some point in the future DOI will be replaced with content addressing (CA), which will allow the retrieval of a document from any place it is stored, and not just the publisher's vault. Via Paul Walk.
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