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Re:The DOI System by afandian on Thursday November 18, 2021 @03:45AM (#29263433)
To take your point to the next step, how do two otherwise unrelated journals (of which there are tens of thousands) link between each other and solve link rot? Answer: shared open non profit metadata infrastructure.

Disclaimer - I’m at Crossref AMA.

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Re:The DOI System by krab on Thursday November 18, 2021 @06:35AM (#29264332)
Theoretically, the journals could publish a canonical URL for each article. But apparently organizations are not good at publishing and maintaining such URLs. Especially in case of mergers and rebrandings.
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Re:The DOI System by afandian on Thursday November 18, 2021 @07:55AM (#29264862)
That canonical URL is literally what the DOI system is. Publishers getting together to agree on a shared identifier system, regardless of each publisher's business model.
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