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Re:Show HN: Quilt – manage data like code by akarve on Friday July 14, 2017 @02:32PM (#14772138)
The package name + hash is an implicit DOI. What if we added web support for it so that users could https://quiltdata.com/packages/USER/PKG?doi=SOME_HASH ?
Re:Show HN: Quilt – manage data like code by torchous on Friday July 14, 2017 @03:09PM (#14772371)
Yes, but it's not globally recognizable. that's why doi's are standardized through ISO https://www.doi.org/ Internally you could implement a DOI->HASH mapping, but a quilt hash isn't going to help in the reference list of a paper (if you're lucky you can copy'n'paste it. How do you know where to go? What happens if your package organization changes internally and so forth.
Re:Show HN: Quilt – manage data like code by Steeeve on Friday July 14, 2017 @05:07PM (#14773182)
This is more than adequate. DOIs are simply redirects. It's up to the data owner to point the DOI at whatever resource contains the data. If a DOI is registered, it can be pointed to the quilt URL.

You can take it a step further and either integrate with a DOI provider or become one yourself and integrate the registration process within your api or create command line tools.