The DOI itself is permanent, the URL that results from dereferencing the DOI can be changed. The object/concept the DOI identifies should be permanent. What that object/concept actually represents and the possible versioning of that object, I believe, is up to those stewarding that object.
DataCite [1] is the DOI minting service I've used. Their metadata schema [2] includes a field for version information. There are some notes on versioning on page 28 of the "DataCite Metadata Schema Documentation for the Publication and Citation of Research Data" [3] including: > Suggested practice: track major_version.minor_version. > > Register a new identifier for a major version change. Individual stewards > need to determine which are major vs. minor versions2 Not sure what other DOI minting services recommend or how this might work if using the GitHub DOI minting tie-in with FigShare. [1] https://www.datacite.org [2] http://doi.org/10.5438/0014 [3] https://schema.datacite.org/meta/kernel-4.1/doc/DataCite-MetadataKernel_v4.1.pdf -- You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/cf-convention/cf-conventions/issues/127#issuecomment-358772030
