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Page 2, para 2: Clarify citability/ID #2

Closed JEK-III closed 10 years ago

JEK-III commented 10 years ago

Page 2, para 2: “citability is addressed by assigning a PID.” This is not true, as the authors discuss on page 4, para 4. Indeed, page 4, para 4 seems to contradict itself. Citation is more than a locator/identifier

JEK-III commented 10 years ago

“citability is addressed by assigning a PID” --> “citability is addressed by that [repository] and assigning a PID"

Clears up the intro. Still have to deal with p4p4.

JEK-III commented 10 years ago

Many data publishers facilitate formal citation by assigning unique permanent identifiers, most commonly the same ones used for journal articles: Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs). In addition to precisely specifying what resource is being cited, a DOI can be resolved to locate the referenced dataset. Note, however, that a DOI is neither sufficient nor necessary for citability, which demands only that the referenced object be persistent and locatable via the citation. If a dataset moves and the DOI is not updated with the new location, the citation breaks. Conversely, a well-maintained web-address works as well as a DOI, at least in theory.