[fitsbits] [EXT] DOI for FITS standard document?

[Jessica Mink]

One possibility that I hadn't thought about until today was to get a doi 
for the FITS 4.0 Standard from the Astrophysical Code Software Library 
(ASCL). They can issue a doi and get the standard listed on ADS, too. 
I'm on the ASCL Advisory Committee and have proposed the addition of the 
FITS 4.0 Standard to ASCL.

-Jessica Mink

On 05/01/2020 11:33 AM, THIERRY FORVEILLE via fitsbits wrote:
>     Dear Lucio,
>   
>> Still concerning the 4.0 version, I am rather reluctant to consider it for
>> a journal publication, since de facto it merges (though with adjustments
>> and language editing) stuff mostly already published.
>>
>> A 4.1 or 5.0 with substantial improvements would be a different story, but
>> the discussion on long-name keywords, which we should resume, seems to
>> indicate this is not an easy or fast task.
>>
>> (but if Thierry could get a DOI without publication we should not discard
>> this possibility)
>>
> The latter was indeed was indeed what I was thinking of. I agree that the
> update does not justify a journal publication.
>
>> I have no idea of the procedure to get a DOI for an "unpublished" document
>> (although nowadays, with the phasing out of HARDCOPY publication, what
>> does it mean exactly "published" ?), of how official should be the
>> requestor of a DOI.
>>
> I am not sure of the exact limits, but DOIs seem nowadays to be attributed fairly
> liberally. CDS for instance attributes DOIs to the datasets that they archive,
> some of which come from a journal article which has its own different DOI.
>
> Best,
> Thierry
>
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