upload of BHL records to BLR

[myrmoteras]

@lnielsen a question regarding existing DOI and changing the original digital file.

what do you recommend to do with handling of DOIs when there one exists.

[jhpoelen]

see also zenodo/zenodo#2536 and bat-literature/bat-literature.github.io#3 .

[jhpoelen]

A use case would be

1. original publisher predates DOIs and the internet
2. someone (lets say BHL) comes along and digitizes "old" content and assigns a DOI to it
3. someone else comes along (lets say Plazi) and redigitized "old" content and . . . assigns a DOI to it

So now:

How to cite the concept of the original publication and their many associated digital equivalents?

Or, similarly, how to update/edit the content (e.g., digital impressions of the publication, metadata etc) associated with some concept of the original publication while keeping the original version around? How to cite the updated version, how to cite the original?

As far as I understand, Zenodo addressed this content versioning by introducing "concept" DOIs and associated concept version DOIs. However, this is in the Zenodo universe. Note, that a DOI was not designed to point to digital things, but was designed to be a digital identifier introduced as an abstraction to point to things (digital or not). The only thing digital about the DOI is the DOI itself.

[jhpoelen]

Please note that @carlinmack answered in zenodo/zenodo#2536

with

We don't support versioning with non-Zenodo DOIs. Instead you can create a new upload and link it to the previous version by adding a note or linking the DOI in the related identifiers field.