[fitsbits] DOI keyword usage for FITS? {External}

[Steve Allen]

On Thu 2023-08-03T14:37:17+0000 Seaman, Robert Lewis - (rseaman) via fitsbits hath writ:
> REFERENC keyword.

> We’ll do that if nobody recommends otherwise.

I was greatly dismayed to find that some of the DOI which are included
in the bibliographies of the ADS database do not resolve.
In particular there are DOI which once pointed to Transactions of the
IAU that now point nowhere because they have not been "maintained".
That was an unpleasant surprise and it violates the design that FITS
is supposed to be self-documenting and archival.

If DOI is used as the value of a REFERENC keyword then I recommend
using more than one REFERENC keyword with an alternative lookup
scheme.

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