Peter Brueggeman wrote:
> replacing that already imperfect scheme with a longer DOI citation
> format involving more numbers will be problematic.
<snip>
> A solution would be to replace sequential pagination (which people
> mess up as we all know) with an even simpler article numbering scheme
> as Henry Hagedorn suggested, in order to keep it simple. I can reach
> his ejournal's online article on the Web simply with
> "insectscience.org/2.7" as the URL.
>
But will that URL be the same in the future? Other publishers might come
up with many different such schemas. The DOI is designed to be
persistent.
Think of it as an electronic equivalent of the ISBN, only on steroids.
The DOI is an implementation of the CNRI Handle System. With a simple
plugin or by using a dedicated proxy server, browsers can recognize
a DOI and resolve it to its corresponding URL(s), leading to the online
article. See http://www.doi.org/about_the_doi.html
Jon Sears, AGU
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