Re: [urn] URN:DOI namespace registration request

"Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk> Tue, 19 January 2021 10:40 UTC

To: "Martin J. Dürst" <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
Cc: Paul Jessop <paul@countyanalytics.com>, "Dale R. Worley" <worley@ariadne.com>, "Hakala, Juha E" <juha.hakala@helsinki.fi>, "llannom@cnri.reston.va.us" <llannom@cnri.reston.va.us>, "urn@ietf.org" <urn@ietf.org>, "john@jck.com" <john@jck.com>, "jonathanmtclark@gmail.com" <jonathanmtclark@gmail.com>
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From: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 10:40:10 +0000
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Subject: Re: [urn] URN:DOI namespace registration request
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Martin J. Dürst writes:

> ...
> What I think is important is to do some research on how DOIs are
> currently used in the wild. In a very quick search, I found the
> following two at least:
>   IETF RFCs: DOI 10.17487/RFC3986
>   ACM Digital Library: DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/2594291.2594299

Here's another relevant study:

  https://doi.org/10.1145/3184558.3191636

> I'm very sure I have seen DOIs in URI form (i.e. doi:...), too.

Indeed.  There are some numbers bearing this out in the above study,
showing hundreds of thousands of uses of doi: URIs in HTML pages taken
from Common Crawl, almost entirely in HTML <head> metadata.

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Re: [urn] URN:DOI namespace registration request Paul Jessop
Re: [urn] URN:DOI namespace registration request Martin J. Dürst
Re: [urn] URN:DOI namespace registration request Henry S. Thompson
Re: [urn] URN:DOI namespace registration request Paul Jessop
Re: [urn] URN:DOI namespace registration request Hakala, Juha E
Re: [urn] URN:DOI namespace registration request Julian Reschke
Re: [urn] URN:DOI namespace registration request worley
Re: [urn] URN:DOI namespace registration request Paul Jessop
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