Tracking Digital Object Identifiers
Just like phonebooks 📗 resolve names to a phone 📞 number, Digital Object Identifiers (shorthand: DOI) resolve a stable URL to another, less stable URL. In order for this to function, we need to trust the middle-people who are involved in the resolving. Let's find out by seeing how often the DOIs resolve to something else 😊
NOTE: This is a Liberate Science project and will be moved to the organization account upon a v1.0.0
Roadmap
In chronological order, I think.
- Set up proper calls to CrossRef per their etiquette
- Setup script for downloading CrossRef DOIs responsibly
- Ingest on day0
- Update script for each day (
cron.daily) - Ingest into MongoDB after each query
- Setup MongoDB instance on AWS
- Create backups of MongoDB
- Setup script for resolving
- Ingest results into MongoDB
- Set up DataCite calls
- Repeat CrossRef steps
- Ingest into MongoDB
- Make data publicly available
Status
The project just started.
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