[Corpora-List] Question: Citing Linguistic Corpora

[Khalid Choukri]

Hi Christian

If you look at the paper I mentioned you can see some arguments why we are not advocating for DOI, not only because handlers are not free of charge and many resources are not necessarily described on Internet  


 Best regards
Khalid Choukri
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Le 19 mars 2013 à 10:32, Christian Pietsch <chr.pietsch at googlemail.com> a écrit :

> Dear Khalid,
> 
> thank you for the information. We agree on the need for globally
> unique identifiers for reseach datasets. A very promising
> cross-disciplinary ID that has emerged for this purpose is the DOI.
> It uses the Handle system as its technical infrastructure, and 
> researchers are being trained to use DOIs for citing resources.
> 
> So why are you proposing a new ID specifically for linguistic
> resources? The infrastructure for registering and resolving ISLRNs
> does not exist, and why build a parallel infrastructure? Why train
> researchers, librarians and other knowledge workers to recognize and
> use yet another ID? The Language Archive <http://tla.mpi.nl/> has
> decided to use the Handle system directly (without the DOI layer on
> top of it). Why not join them?
> 
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 11:38:04AM +0100, Khalid CHOUKRI wrote:
>> We were about to announce an initiative to respond to such needs, I am happy to
>> anticipate on our plans.
>> 
>> almost two years ago, at the FlareNET meeting
>> (http://www.flarenet.eu/sites/default/files/S1_Choukri_Position_Paper.pdf), I
>> made a proposal on the assignment of Persistent and Unique identifiers to
>> Language resources.
>> The idea was to go beyond the current references via URls (or DOI) to ensure
>> that we have a really permanent Identifier that would cover all existing data
>> sets including those not publicly available  (or not available on Internet).
> 
> How does this go beyond DOIs? DOIs and Handles are permanent by
> design.
> 
> Cheers,
> Christian
> 
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>  LibTec · Library Technology and Knowledge Management
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