Re: DOI and other identifiers

On Sat, May 7, 2016, 13:03 Bill Kasdorf <bkasdorf@apexcovantage.com> wrote:

> The question wasn't whether the metadata would be available. The RA
> defines what metadata it needs for its particular type of DOI (involved in
> disambiguation and discovery). The metadata for an annotation could indeed
> already "be there." My point was that there is an action required to
> register it. Just creating an annotation doesn't automatically get it a
> DOI. You have to register the DOI or you don't have one. IMO a tiny
> fraction of annotators would do this.--Bill
>

A tiny fraction would do it, sure, assuming it's not automatic.

Again, I'm inquiring about technical barriers to making it automatic.

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