Re: [jats-list] Versions of an article

[Alf Eaton <eaton.alf@xxxxxxxxx>]

CrossRef did have a blog post about this a few years ago
<http://crosstech.crossref.org/2010/02/does_a_crossref_doi_identify_a.html>,
mentioning the possibility of updating the guidelines. It seems like
DataCite has gone much further with allowing/recommending new DOIs for
later versions of the same "work", perhaps because datasets are more
likely to be updated over time.

All this is helpful discussion, by the way - the choice of possible
elements has expanded to "related-article", "self-uri" and/or
"sub-article" :-)

It's worth noting that the web, with URLs for each version and link
relations in the HTML/HTTP headers[1], has pretty much solved this
problem already, so mimicking those link relations in XML seems like
the most straightforward answer.

Alf

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5829

On 9 May 2013 22:12, Kevin Hawkins <kevin.s.hawkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> We need to distinguish between DOIs created through a membership in CrossRef
> and other DOIs.  Since many of us only use CrossRef for DOIs, we come to
> think of their rules as being the only rules.
>
> The International DOI Foundation explicitly has no policy on whether you
> should assign a new DOI when the content has changed slightly:
>
> http://www.doi.org/faq.html
>
> On the other hand, CrossRef's publisher rules (
> http://www.crossref.org/02publishers/59pub_rules.html ) says:
>
> 12. CrossRef only registers DOIs for Definitive Works (or Versions of
> Record, if not formally published) but not for Duplicative Works, as defined
> in the CrossRef Glossary. This means that only original scholarly material,
> for which there is no actual DOI at the time of submission, and no expected
> duplication in future, is admissible for CrossRef DOI registration. CrossRef
> does not permit multiple DOIs to be assigned to  certain closely related
> versions of a work, and hence does not support assignment of DOIs to
> Pre-prints or Post-prints of Definitive Works or to the Personal Version or
> a Self-archived Copy of a Definitive Work. For the same reasons, materials
> for which DOI duplication can be reasonably anticipated, such as an Authors
> Original Draft of a work being prepared for publication, are not admissible
> for CrossRef DOI registration.
>
> However, it appears that if you use CrossMark metadata, you can create more
> than one DOI for the same published work as long as the proper CrossMark
> metadata is attached to each of those DOIs.  That appears to be the
> mechanism used by F1000 Research.
>
> None of this, of course, answers Alf's original question.  :)
>
> --Kevin