[fitsbits] DOI for FITS standard document?

[Richard Shaw]

If there is no current mechanism for the IAU to generate DOIs, I quite like
Thierry's suggestion of having A&A generate one. It is certainly worth
exploring.

Cheers,
Dick

On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 3:30 PM THIERRY FORVEILLE <
thierry.forveille at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr> wrote:

>
> > 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.)
> >
> I'd need to check with our publisher as they handle those aspects, but
> (speaking
> as its editor in chief) A&A could most likely generate one if desired,
> which
> would perhaps have some amount of justification since previous versions of
> the
> standard were published as A&A papers. I am not necessarily arguing for
> that
> option, just mentioning that it (probably) exists.
>
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