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

[Demitri Muna]

Where is the point of failure here? Can you provide a few examples?

Demitri


> On Aug 3, 2023, at 13:11, Steve Allen via fitsbits <fitsbits at listmgr.nrao.edu> wrote:
> 
> 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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