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More of a checksum though (just thinking lots of very nig data sets coming)? And wouldn't it be better to piggyback on a DOI at least (e.g., http://DOI_stem/your_extension)? - Chris from twhirl

Regarding DOIs: any connection here to the STD-DOI project for archiving primary datasets and assigning DOIs to them to make them citable? Example dataset citation: Kamm,H; Machon, L; Donner, S (2004): Gas Chromatography (KTB Field Lab), GFZ Potsdam. doi:10.1594/GFZ/ICDP/KTB/ktb-geoch-gaschr-p (from http://www.std-doi.de) - 'Mummi' Thorisson

Absolutely I'm campaiging for it myself (not this specifically though I was very pleased to stumble on it) -- just gave this (http://tinyurl.com/nvyb57) talk at ISMB on Thursday (just the last couple of slides are the relevant ones). So I'm all for it and liked the mention of standards, just that DOIs are so close to being widely-enough used already that it seems a shame not to build on that. - Chris from twhirl

Meeting peopl efrom the British Library on Monday to talk about this very kind of thing and amongst the (MI) standards people and at www.rin.ac.uk we've been talking about it quite a bit -- the principle more than the exact mechanism, which for easy-bridging reasons seems to make sense as a kind of vestigial journal as a vehicle... - Chris from twhirl

@ Mummi, good lord that's rather interesting isn't it -- no relation to me at all no. The BL group I'm meeting also have a guy that's a big DOI advocate and his talk mentions some kind of euro registry? http://tinyurl.com/mkuhvq slides 6+ (DOIs) and 12+ (JRA) - Chris from twhirl

@ Mummi again btw the timeline and a little mistake (multi-threading mayhem) made my post immediately after yours a little odd-sounding. As I later said I've nothing to do with the German project I was speaking in another context. - Chris from twhirl

@Chris, sorry my bad, I was being unclear which didn't help! I meant to say earlier whether there was any relation between the Dataverse thing and the German (based/funded..?) international TIB project. - 'Mummi' Thorisson

@Chris Thanks for the PDF, very helpful to know about this JRA initiative which I don't know yet if is an extension/expansion of the TIB thing, or modelled after it. Will read property around this in PDF + elsewhere ! BTW I'm tangentially interested in this topic, from the perspective of genome-wide association study datasets and ways to archive them and cite them. - 'Mummi' Thorisson

Okay. I'll try to give a bit more info about the JRA thing once I have it. Incidentally, on association studies (QTLs too?) I ought to mention one of the projects we have registered at MIBBI for reporting QTLs and association studies: http://mibbi.org/index... - Chris from twhirl