[OSGeo-Standards] DOIs for Datasets

[Luí­s Moreira de Sousa]

Hi Joana, all,

a DOI is in essence a URI within the domain of the Handle System, therefore there is no way around some registration (often paid) party. Some software packages out there (e.g. Dataverse) facilitate the registration of DOIs associated to the assets they manage locally, but in truth I am not familiar with those.

It could be that a persistent identifier is indeed enough to your use case. In the general case of meta-data I don't see an advantage of a DOI, but perhaps I ignore something. The ePIC service seems an appropriate choice in the Research domain:
https://www.pidconsortium.net/

Regards.

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On Sunday, 25 August 2024 at 21:41, Joana Simoes via Standards <standards at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> Good evening,
> 
> I was wondering if anyone has experience/best practices to share
> regarding generating DOIs for datasets that are hosted on a SDI?
> 
> Research resources, including data, are encouraged to adopt Digital
> Object Identifiers (DOI) to identify objects persistently. They allow
> things to be uniquely identified and accessed reliably.
> 
> From what I understand, these DOIs need to be generated by one of the
> registration agencies under the DOI foundation (https://www.doi.org/).
> Some of these agencies, like Zenodo (https://zenodo.org/), will generate
> the DOIs for free, but the issue I see is that they require the data to
> be hosted on their repositories. I see this as a duplication of
> information if the data already lives on a SDI, raising a series of
> issues (maintaining the data in both places, duplication of storage, etc).
> 
> What would be the best approach, to keep the data (and metadata) on the
> SDI, but still be able to reference it as a citation?
> 
> In this context, would it make sense to give up on the DOI and go for a
> Persistent Uniform Resource Locator (PURL)?
> 
> This would be an example of a Purl:
> 
> https://doi.byteroad.net/emotional.cities/hex350_grid_cardio_1920
> 
> Looking forwards for your thoughts on this.
> 
> Thank You,
> 
> All the Best,
> 
> Joana
> 
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