[fitsbits] REFERENC keyword, etc.

[Demitri Muna]

Hi,

On Jul 21, 2015, at 1:25 PM, Joe Hourcle <oneiros at grace.nascom.nasa.gov> wrote:

> I'm more confident about HTTP than other protocols right now, simply because it's been in use for 20+ years at this point, and there are groups actively working on crawling and archiving HTTP sites.  Just last month, there was a conference on the topic:
> 
> 	https://library.columbia.edu/bts/web_resources_collection/Conferences/program.html
> 
> I want to be able to mint DOIs, but I want to be using resolvable URLs:
> 
> 	http://dx.doi.org/10.xxx/xxxxxx

There is already a defined method to do this with the "doi" URI scheme:

http://www.doi.org/doi_handbook/2_Numbering.html#2.6.2
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-paskin-doi-uri-04#section-3

> NOTE:	Certain client or server software might be able to process DOIs using native resolution technology (i.e. doi:10.1006/jmbi.1998.2354 would be interpreted by the browser and automatically resolved without the addition of the proxy server address).

I think this is the correct, future-proof approach.

Cheers,
Demitri

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Demitri Muna

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