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Guidelines for authoring digital documentation for GBIF
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DOIs for documentation images #5

Closed pzermoglio closed 4 years ago

pzermoglio commented 5 years ago

We have found some publications that have images with DOIs assigned to them. For an example see: https://riojournal.com/article/32449/element/2/3571126/, where e.g., 10.3897/rio.4.e32449.figure1 is the doi for Figure 1, 10.3897/rio.4.e32449.figure4 is the doi for Figure 4, etc.

Would this be something to consider for the documentation?

kcopas commented 5 years ago

This idea is worth considering for new works, but not for, say, screenshots.

Seems like something authors should discuss with Secretariat staff where appropriate—or have Secretariat staff flag as an option upon review of text. In the event that DOIs are assigned, this should be done through GBIF's DataCite account.

dnoesgaard commented 5 years ago

In my opinion it would really only make sense if said images were hosted independently, not just part of a publication. Otherwise it would be like assigning individual DOIs to paragraphs of a text and having the DOIs point to anchors within the same text.