[fitsbits] DOI for FITS standard document?

Wed Apr 15 14:45:44 EDT 2020

I am by no means an expert on DOIs. We do mint them at MAST for data
collections and such. On the back-end STScI/MAST contracts with a
third-party agent to create and maintain DOIs. The DOIs in effect have a
prefix and some running identifier. If, for example, MAST were to create a
DOI for v4.0, it would have an STScI prefix. I'm not sure if that is an
issue. Or someone in an IAU capacity could go to a third-party provider
(and inherit their prefix), but I suspect there would be some cost
involved. It would be worth asking if the IAU generates it own DOIs when
needed, but I have no idea who to ask about that. (I've never seen an org
chart for the IAU.)

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> Has anyone considered generating a DOI for the latest (v4.0) FITS standard
> document? The other versions (and the supporting papers, I guess) have a
> DOI by virtue of having been published in A&A. Having a DOI for v4.0 would
> make referencing the latest version of the standard a bit more, uh,
> standard.
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> This sounds like a good idea to me. The standard should be
> referenceable. Who or what would be the appropriate agent to get the
> DOI? Its host? The IAU FITS Special Expert Group?
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> -Jessica Mink
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> On 04/14/2020 04:52 PM, Richard Shaw via fitsbits wrote:
> > Has anyone considered generating a DOI for the latest (v4.0) FITS
> > standard document? The other versions (and the supporting papers, I
> > guess) have a DOI by virtue of having been published in A&A. Having a
> > DOI for v4.0 would make referencing the latest version of the standard
> > a bit more, uh, standard.
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> > -Dick Shaw
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> From: "Seaman, Robert Lewis - (rseaman)" <rseaman at arizona.edu>
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> Who has responsibility for this? If IAU Comm B2, a few of us remain on
> that OC (and IAU is wanting feedback about what we?ve been up to). If NASA
> FITS Support Office, who is the responsible party? Or somebody else?
> Apparently you?ve considered the issue, Dick, and I suspect most would be
> happy if you just went ahead and took care of this little detail ??
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> I should say that the agenda for my PDS telecon tomorrow will include a
> DOI for the Catalina Sky Survey data set. I?d be happy to also write the
> one DOI to rule them all into our data, as well. Does v4.0 reference the
> other DOIs you mention?
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> Perhaps needless to say, the old guard would likely support publishing
> v4.0 in A&A or elsewhere.
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> Rob
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> Has anyone considered generating a DOI for the latest (v4.0) FITS standard
> document? The other versions (and the supporting papers, I guess) have a
> DOI by virtue of having been published in A&A. Having a DOI for v4.0 would
> make referencing the latest version of the standard a bit more, uh,
> standard.
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