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I tend to consider it an “unintended feature” myself. ☺ But otherwise this is my understanding of the situation too. As far as I’m aware DOIs proper are all in the form 10.xxxx/some_more_stuff Deborah From: Code for Libraries <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Conal Tuohy Sent: Friday, 17 August 2018 1:26 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] exact relationship between DOIs and handles? Kia ora Stuart! I think the answer to your question is "no, the identifier is not a valid DOI". As evidence, I offer this URI which is supposed return information about the Registration Agency which registered that DOI: https://doi.org/doiRA/10063/1710<https://doi.org/doiRA/10063/1710> As you know, DOIs are a proper subset of Handles; and functionally, the DOI system relies on the Handle system as its infrastructure for URI resolution. I believe that when you resolve the URI < https://doi.org/10063/1710<https://doi.org/10063/1710>>, the DOI resolver is simply resolving the identifier as a Handle, and not first validating that the Handle is actually a valid DOI. I'd regard that as a bug in the DOI's resolver, personally. Cheers! Conal On Fri, 17 Aug 2018 at 09:37, Stuart A. Yeates <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: > We have a DSpace instance that is configured to issue handle.net<http://handle.net> > identifiers to all items, so links such as: > > https://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/handle/10063/1710<https://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/handle/10063/1710> > http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/handle/10063/1710<http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/handle/10063/1710> > https://hdl.handle.net/10063/1710<https://hdl.handle.net/10063/1710> > http://hdl.handle.net/10063/1710<http://hdl.handle.net/10063/1710> > > all take a web browser to the same content. The following URLs also take > web > browsers to the same content: > > https://doi.org/10063/1710<https://doi.org/10063/1710> > http://doi.org/10063/1710<http://doi.org/10063/1710> > https://dx.doi.org/10063/1710<https://dx.doi.org/10063/1710> > http://dx.doi.org/10063/1710<http://dx.doi.org/10063/1710> > > The lookup at https://www.doi.org/index.html<https://www.doi.org/index.html> resolves the doi "10063/1710" > to the same content. > > I have two questions: > > (a) is 10063/1710 a valid/legal doi for this item ? > (b) are the doi.org<http://doi.org> URLs above valid/legal for this item? > > The documentation on the https://www.doi.org/<https://www.doi.org/> and https://handle.net/<https://handle.net/> > websites is surprisingly quiet on these issues... > > [We've been assuming the answer to these questions is 'yes' but yesterday > this was questioned by a colleague, so I'm looking for definitive answers] > > cheers > stuart > -- > ...let us be heard from red core to black sky > -- Conal Tuohy http://conaltuohy.com/<http://conaltuohy.com/> @conal_tuohy +61-466-324297 ________________________________ "The contents of this e-mail (including any attachments) may be confidential and/or subject to copyright. Any unauthorised use, distribution, or copying of the contents is expressly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please advise the sender by return e-mail or telephone and then delete this e-mail together with all attachments from your system."