Comment by sebmellen

Comment by sebmellen 3 days ago

I’ve met the folks behind DOI. Very nice people (Jonathan Clark in particular).

It’s an independent foundation and they have backups/contingency plans established with major universities to preserve the DOI records in the event the foundation fails.

https://www.doi.org/the-foundation/board-and-governance/

jgord 3 days ago

.. we need a Foundation .. and a second Foundation :]

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hkt 3 days ago

It's just like O'Brien always said.. you've _got_ to have a redundant backup.
(Third foundation?)

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j-pb 3 days ago

Their whole organisation should have been a hash function...

DOI must die

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PaulHoule 2 days ago

Should be done with Web3.

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- j-pb 2 days ago
  
  Scientific publishing is one of the very few legit use cases for block-chains imo.
  But magnet links and the BitTorrent mainline hash-table are a better DOI than DOI.
  
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  sebmellen 2 days ago
  
  DOIs exist so they can be human readable and simultaneously indicate the source and veracity of it. They’re somewhat gated as well which serves a function.
  
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