Re: [CODE4LIB] Strategy for assigning DOIs?

2016-02-11 Thread Kevin Hawkins
Jason, It sounds like your question is really about whether the tool built into DSpace for assigning DOIs lets you control which DOI to use for a new item, or whether you have no control over which DOI it assigns. For that, I think you'll need to look into the specifics of the tool built int

Re: [CODE4LIB] Strategy for assigning DOIs?

2016-02-09 Thread Han, Yan - (yhan)
Hi, Jason, I strongly suggest to separate your DOI namespace/naming schema to be totally independent of your choice of repository/system. DOI is an infrastructure thing, and the main reason behind of assigning DOI is for persistency and permanency. At some point any repository system will go aw

[CODE4LIB] Strategy for assigning DOIs?

2016-02-09 Thread Jason Best
We recently started assigning DOIs to articles published in one of our journals using Open Journal System which generates the DOI and metadata within a namespace dedicated to that journal. We don’t yet have an institutional repository, but are moving in that direction and I hope we have one in a