[Esip-preserve] Citations guideline revisions

[Ruth Duerr]

I am not convinced that DOIs, ARKs, and Handles can be recommended equally - I also don't understand why if we are adding identifiers to a list, PURLs, etc. have been left off, since if you are broadening the field to include other identifiers any of the URL-based locators could work.

Aside from that, I do think an argument can be made for DOIs and ARKs to be recommended more strongly than Handles.  The issue is that Thomson-Reuters is working with the DataCite folks to include both DOIs and ARKs in their citation indexes, Web of Knowledge, and Web of Science.  I haven't heard that any group is doing the same for Handles - does anyone have knowledge about other efforts to include identifiers in citation indexes?  I think having use of your data show up in citation indexes is important and I would hesitate to recommend any identifier that didn't get included.

Ruth

On Jul 25, 2011, at 7:34 AM, Curt Tilmes 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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