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Parent issue: Improving the scholarly reputation of the RFC Series Specific issue: DOI assignments to all RFC
Size (time): 3-4 months Importance/Urgency: Med/Low
Problem Statement: When documenting authored publications, academic researchers rely on Digital Object Identifiers (http://www.doi.org/) assigned to their publications. In order to encourage the reputation and value of the Series to academic researchers, adding DOIs to all published RFCs is being considered as a possibility. Using DOIs to uniquely identify publications is considered a standard best practice among the scientific, technical, and medical publishing community.
RSE Actions:
RSOC Actions:
RFC Production Center & Publisher Actions:
Costs/Benefits Financial:
While a subscription service is possible for $2500/year, given the number of RFC's published (approx 350/year) a per document service like CrossRef.org makes more sense for the Series.
Project schedules:
Reputation: goal is to improve the overall reputation of the series
Estimated completion date: TBD
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Note on API for EZID The API documentation is here: http://n2t.net/ezid/doc/apidoc.html
The API test user account user name: apitest password: apitest
This is a shared account, and the identifiers created are subject to deletion after 2 weeks.