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

[Maren Purves]

Why not have a DOI keyword?
(just don't make it mandatory)

Maren Purves
Head of Instrument and Telescope Software
East Asian Observatory


On Thu, Aug 3, 2023 at 7:19 AM Seaman, Robert Lewis - (rseaman) via
fitsbits <fitsbits at listmgr.nrao.edu> wrote:

> That seems a bit dismissive of the whole notion of DOIs. Also, thoughts
> about duplicate keywords?
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> The mandatory *FITS *keywords defined in this Standard *must not *appear
> more than once within a header. All other keywords that have a value *should
> not *appear more than once. If a keyword does appear multiple times with
> different values, then the value is indeterminate.
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> Rob
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> On 8/3/23, 10:13 AM, "fitsbits" wrote:
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> On Thu 2023-08-03T14:37:17+0000 Seaman, Robert Lewis - (rseaman) via
> fitsbits hath writ:
> > REFERENC keyword.
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> > We’ll do that if nobody recommends otherwise.
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> 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.
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> 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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