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Saturday, January 07, 2006

DOIs for data

Norman Paskin, Digital Object Identifiers for scientific data, Data Science Journal, January 5, 2006.
Abstract: The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is a system for identifying content objects in the digital environment. DOIs are names assigned to any entity for use on Internet digital networks. Scientific data sets may be identified by DOIs, and several efforts are now underway in this area. This paper outlines the underlying architecture of the DOI system, and two such efforts which are applying DOIs to content objects of scientific data.