Assigning DOIs to dictionaries

[Herbert J. Bernstein]

Working through Zenodo make sense.  While it is not a COMCIFS issue, IUCr
should also consider
formalizing use of Zenodo for posting DOIs for raw data behind journal
publications, and then back to
COMCIFS --adding a uniform DOI tag category _in_ all our dictionaries for
all raw data, dictionaries
and other relevant permanent links in CIF documents, so it is easy to build
permanent document networks.  -- Herbert

On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 3:14 AM James Hester via comcifs <comcifs at iucr.org>
wrote:

> Dear COMCIFS,
>
> In the past we have discussed assigning DOIs to our CIF dictionaries via
> the mechanism used by the IUCr for their publications. So far this
> discussion has not yielded much fruit.  A DOI is quite useful as it allows
> us to refer to other dictionaries via DOIs and URLs that are pretty much
> guaranteed to not become outdated and are machine-actionable.
>
> Instead of the IUCr publication mechanism it occurred to me that we might
> use an outside service like Zenodo to deposit canonical dictionary
> versions. How this would work is as follows:
>
> (1) A new dictionary version would be approved using the current mechanisms
> (2) The dictionary would be deposited at Zenodo using a COMCIFS or IUCr
> official account and a DOI reserved (ie document is not yet published)
> (3) This DOI would be edited into the dictionary if necessary
> (4) Further technical editing would be undertaken as needed
> (5) The final dictionary is published on the IUCr website and the
> 'Publish' button pushed on Zenodo
>
> Ideally the 'author' for Zenodo and citation purposes would be either
> 'COMCIFS' or 'IUCr'. The authentication password could reside with the
> COMCIFS secretary(s). I have chosen Zenodo because it is not affiliated or
> funded by a commercial entity and I have some experience publishing there,
> but alternative suggestions are welcome.
>
> The minor downsides I see with this scheme are that (1) the DOI would
> contain the string 'zenodo', which is sort of against the spirit of the
> underlying object being able to move locations (2) a data DOI such as that
> delivered by Zenodo points to a 'landing page', not to the object itself.
> The resources are instead linked from the landing page; as far as I can
> tell these links are predictable (DOI URL + '/files/<filename>').  I'd
> prefer an even simpler way to point a program at a DOI and get back the
> file I wanted, but I digress.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> James.
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