[Esip-preserve] Citations guideline revisions

[Mark A. Parsons]

Yes, use as many identifiers as you like, but you should probably only use one in a citation. The publishers would probably prefer that be a DOI (at the moment at least).

Cheers,

-m. 
On 25 Jul 2011, at 12:22 PM, Bruce Barkstrom wrote:

> One question that I don't think we've addressed is whether having a single
> source of redirection will decrease the probability of losing information due
> to the loss of multi-site replication.  Going to the multi-identifier approach
> would be more consistent with multi-site distribution of locators.
> 
> Bruce b.
> 
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Curt Tilmes <Curt.Tilmes at nasa.gov> 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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