Network Working Group P.-A. Lemieux, Ed.
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The "doi" URI Scheme
draft-lemieux-doi-uri-scheme-01
Abstract
This document specifies the "doi" URI scheme, as specified in
[RFC3986], for Digital Object Identifier (DOI) names.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
1. Introduction
A DOI name is a global unique identifier of a referent, which can be
any digital, physical or abstract entity, including inventions,
literary and artistic works, ideas, symbols, names, images, designs,
etc. DOI names are, for example, widely used to identify academic
publications. The DOI system is specified in [iso26324] and
[doi-handbook], with the former offering regular formal snapshot of
the latter.
EXAMPLE 1: The DOI name "10.1103/PhysRevLett.59.381" refers to the
article Per Bak, Chao Tang, and Kurt Wiesenfeld, "Self-organized
criticality: An explanation of the 1/f noise", Phys. Rev. Lett. 59,
381.
A DOI name is persistent over time. This persistence is provided by
the independence of the DOI name from the referent itself and its
descriptive elements. These descriptive elements of a referent,
including location and ownership, can change over time, and their
current values are retrieved by resolving the DOI name. The set of
elements retrieved by resolving a DOI name is called the DOI record.
The DOI name resolution process uses the Handle System specified at
[RFC3650], [RFC3651] and [RFC3652], as updated by [DOI-RP].
This document specifies a URI scheme for DOI names. This scheme
formalizes the notation "doi:<DOI name>", which is in widespread use.
When resolved, the URI corresponding to a DOI name yields the DOI
record associated with the name.
EXAMPLE 2: "doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.59.381" is the URI corresponding
to the DOI name above.
This document intended to satisfy the guidelines and registration
procedures specified at [RFC7595].
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2. Syntax
As specified at [iso26324], a DOI name consists of an ordered
sequence of Unicode code points of the Graphic type.
The scheme-specific-part of the URI corresponding to a given DOI
name, i.e., the DOI Name URI, SHALL be equal to the result of the
following ordered sequence of steps:
1. express the ordered sequence of Unicode code points that comprise
the DOI name as a UTF-8 String, as defined at [iso10646], without
the byte order mark and without any normalization;
2. percent-encode any byte in the UTF-8 String that is neither
unreserved nor equal to "/".
The URI shall contain neither a query component nor a fragment
component.
EXAMPLE 1: The DOI name "10.5594/SMPTE.ST2067-21.2020" corresponds to
the URI <doi:10.5594/SMPTE.ST2067-21.2020>.
EXAMPLE 2: The DOI name "10.26321/Ã.GUTIÉRREZ.ZARZA.02.2018.03" with
the code point sequence <U+0031, U+0030, U+002E, U+0032, U+0036,
U+0033, U+0032, U+0031, U+002F, U+00C1, U+002E, U+0047, U+0055,
U+0054, U+0049, U+00C9, U+0052, U+0052, U+0045, U+005A, U+002E,
U+005A, U+0041, U+0052, U+005A, U+0041, U+002E, U+0030, U+0032,
U+002E, U+0032, U+0030, U+0031, U+0038, U+002E, U+0030, U+0033>
corresponds to the URI
<doi:10.26321/%C3%81.GUTI%C3%89RREZ.ZARZA.02.2018.03>.
NOTE 1: The sequence of code points comprising a DOI name is not
normalized and equivalence between DOI names is based on code points.
For example, two DOI names that differ only in the abstract character
"Ã" being encoded as <U+00C1> in the first and as <U+0041, U+0301> in
the second are not identical.
NOTE 2: Presenting a DOI name by rendering its sequence of code
points to glyphs can be ambiguous since multiple code points or
sequences of code points can result in the same glyphs. For example,
U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS, U+2212 MINUS SIGN and U+2013 EN DASH are
rendered as similar glyphs. As another example, the abstract
character "á" can be represented by either the code point U+00E1 or
the sequence of code points <U+0061, U+0301>. Presenting a DOI name
in its URI form resolves this ambiguity.
NOTE 3: DOI names are case-insensitive only when testing for
equivalence and only with respect to the Basic Latin Unicode block.
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3. Resolution
Resolving a DOI name means retrieving its DOI record, which contains
the descriptive elements associated with the referent identified by
the DOI name.
A DOI name URI can be be resolved by performing an HTTP GET request
at the following URL (expresssed using ABNF syntaxt as defined at
[RFC5234]):
"https://doi.org/api/handles/" scheme-specific-part
where scheme-specific-part is the scheme-specific-part of the DOI
name URI, as defined at Section 2.
The body of the response is a JSON object, as defined at [RFC8259],
that contains the following members:
responseCode
The property is a Number. The following values are defined:
1 The resolution completed successfully. The HTTP response
status code is 200.
2 The resolution did not complete successfully because of a
server error. The HTTP response status code is 500.
100 The DOI name was not found. The HTTP response status code is
404.
200 No descriptive elements were found for the requested DOI
name. The HTTP response status code is 200.
handle
The property is a String. It is equal to the DOI name for which
resolution was requested.
values
The property is an Object. It contains the descriptive elements
for the referent identified by the DOI name. The contents of the
property are specified at [RFC3651].
Figure 1 illustrates the DOI record, at the time of this writing, for
the DOI name corresponding to the URI <doi:10.1000/182>. The DOI
record was retrieved by performing an HTTP GET request to
<https://doi.org/api/handles/10.1000/182>.
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{
"responseCode": 1,
"handle": "10.1000/182",
"values": [
{
"index": 1,
"type": "URL",
"data": {
"format": "string",
"value": "http://www.doi.org/hb.html"
},
"ttl": 86400,
"timestamp": "2004-01-21T14:14:17Z"
},
{
"index": 100,
"type": "HS_ADMIN",
"data": {
"format": "admin",
"value": {
"handle": "0.na/10.1000",
"index": 200,
"permissions": "011111110010",
"legacyByteLength": true
}
},
"ttl": 86400,
"timestamp": "2000-06-23T15:17:46Z"
}
]
}
Figure 1: DOI record for the DOI name "10.1000/182" (at the time
of this writing)
4. References
4.1. Normative References
[iso26324] ISO, "ISO 26324, Information and documentation, Digital
object identifier system".
[iso10646] ISO, "ISO/IEC 10646, Information technology, Universal
coded character set (UCS)".
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[RFC3986] Berners-Lee, T., Fielding, R., and L. Masinter, "Uniform
Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax", STD 66,
RFC 3986, DOI 10.17487/RFC3986, January 2005,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3986>.
[RFC5234] Crocker, D., Ed. and P. Overell, "Augmented BNF for Syntax
Specifications: ABNF", STD 68, RFC 5234,
DOI 10.17487/RFC5234, January 2008,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5234>.
[RFC3651] Sun, S., Reilly, S., and L. Lannom, "Handle System
Namespace and Service Definition", RFC 3651,
DOI 10.17487/RFC3651, November 2003,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3651>.
[RFC8259] Bray, T., Ed., "The JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Data
Interchange Format", STD 90, RFC 8259,
DOI 10.17487/RFC8259, December 2017,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8259>.
4.2. Informative References
[RFC7595] Thaler, D., Ed., Hansen, T., and T. Hardie, "Guidelines
and Registration Procedures for URI Schemes", BCP 35,
RFC 7595, DOI 10.17487/RFC7595, June 2015,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7595>.
[RFC3650] Sun, S., Lannom, L., and B. Boesch, "Handle System
Overview", RFC 3650, DOI 10.17487/RFC3650, November 2003,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3650>.
[RFC3652] Sun, S., Reilly, S., Lannom, L., and J. Petrone, "Handle
System Protocol (ver 2.1) Specification", RFC 3652,
DOI 10.17487/RFC3652, November 2003,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3652>.
[doi-handbook]
DOI Foundation, "DOI Handbook", DOI 10.1000/182,
<https://www.doi.org/the-identifier/resources/handbook/>.
[DOI-RP] DONA Foundation, "Digital Object Identifier Resolution
Protocol Specification",
<https://www.dona.net/sites/default/files/2022-06/DO-
IRPV3.0--2022-06-30.pdf>.
Author's Address
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Pierre-Anthony Lemieux (editor)
Sandflow Consulting LLC
San Mateo, CA
United States of America
Email: pal@sandflow.com
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