Re:DOI use on Reddit – results from recent dump
by IanCal on Thursday October 01, 2015 @05:07AM
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> Having a single, 'official' ID (whatever it looks like) is better than searching by metadata.
As someone who works with scholarly data, having IDs for things is absolutely invaluable. There's a lot you can do with DOIs quickly and easily that would be prohibitively difficult if you had to use human-added metadata.
As someone who works with scholarly data, having IDs for things is absolutely invaluable. There's a lot you can do with DOIs quickly and easily that would be prohibitively difficult if you had to use human-added metadata.