[Esip-preserve] On the Persistence of Persistent Identifiers of the Scholarly Web

[Mark Parsons]

Good stuff, Matt. Thank you.

This highlights the point of keeping the resolving mechanism distinct from the identifier/locator. And why the identity of the “object” is so difficult to define and may depend on the perspective of  who is accessing it, machine or human. 

I am reminded of Andrew Treloar’s “Five Persistences”
	• Persistence of object
		• Or mechanism to handle its non-persistence
	• Persistence of identifier
	• Persistence of binding between identifier and object
	• Persistence of service to resolve from identifier to object
	• Persistence of service to allow for updating of binding between identifier and object

It’s  number 3 (and 5) — the bridge, the link, the gateway — that is the most difficult. 

As you suggest, we could consider providing some guidance to repositories on this. 

cheers,

-m. 


> On 8 Sep 2020, at 09:19, Matthew Mayernik via Esip-preserve <esip-preserve at lists.esipfed.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> This paper "On the Persistence of Persistent Identifiers of the Scholarly Web" recently won the best paper award at the Joint Conference On Digital Libraries. I think it is worth some consideration, especially regarding citation recommendations.
> 
> https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.03011 <https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.03011>
> 
> Best,
> Matt
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