Wikidata:Property proposal/Short DOI

short DOI

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Creative work

Not done

Description	short alias for DOI generated by the ShortDOI service from the DOI foundation
Represents	digital object identifier (Q25670) but we may have to make a new one, sorry all of that is still a bit new to me
Data type	external identifier (as in Property:P356)-invalid datatype (not in Module:i18n/datatype)
Template parameter	ShortDOI ? I don't believe it needs to be displayed on Wikidata.
Domain	exact same as Property:P356
Allowed values	See Property:P356 with the 3 regexps, according to DOI Foundation we could use only the one that matches maximum values: (?i)10.\d{4,9}/[-._;()/:A-Z0-9]+
Allowed units	none
Example 1	10/aabbe
Example 2	High-Resolution Structure of ClpC1-Rufomycin and Ligand Binding Studies Provide a Framework to Design and Optimize Anti-Tuberculosis Leads (Q93121951) : 10/ggcjcz
Example 3	Paclitaxel-induced apoptosis in MCF-7 breast-cancer cells (Q38559628) : 10/dv5fth
Example 4	Can Invalid Bioactives Undermine Natural Product-Based Drug Discovery? (Q26778522) : 10/f8d4d7
Source	[[1]] and [[2]] and [[3]]
Planned use	matching publications for our project Wikidata:WikiProject_Chemistry/Natural_products
Number of IDs in source	as many as DOIs, we are talking 230 millions on Wikidata as of 19 November 2020
Expected completeness	eventually complete
Formatter URL	https://doi.org/$1
Robot and gadget jobs	YES
See also	Property:P356
Distinct-values constraint	YES
Wikidata project	Wikidata:WikiProject_Source_MetaData

Motivation

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:WikiProject_Source_MetaData#Adding_a_ShortDOI_property

I would like to propose adding a ShortDOI property. ShortDOI are used to provide shorter DOIs than things like that: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19980815/30)17:15/16<1661::AID-SIM968>3.0.CO;2-2

it gets translated to 10/aabbe

They are created by an official DOI API: http://shortdoi.org/

And can be used on https://doi.org interchangeably with DOIs on all their services and will always refer to what the original DOI points to.

I contacted the DOI foundation to make sure about the format as they didn't specify it clearly in their documentation. The proposed format is managing all the ones I've seen so far.

The other solution would be to have two statements with a DOI property, but we would see that as messier as we wouldn't know which one is the short doi unless using a qualifier.

Hope it makes sense.

@AdrianoRutz:@GrndStt:@Egon_Willighagen:

For the Wikidata:WikiProject_Chemistry/Natural_products project, Bjonnh (talk) 20:09, 4 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

What's the vlaue of having short DOI's in addition to the other dois? As far as the examples go please add the items where those values would be placed. ChristianKl ❪✉❫ 21:48, 4 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Articles can be refered as both short DOI and normal DOIs, meaning we could be given short DOIs. Bjonnh (talk) 15:25, 6 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
See Wikidata:Property proposal/WMF short URL, Wikidata:Property proposal/New York Times short URL, Wikidata:Property proposal/The Guardian article ID (and PFD of this property).--GZWDer (talk) 14:59, 5 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Comment DOI is a costly redirect service. Do we really need to store several variations of it? --- Jura 15:20, 5 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- What do you mean by costly? Bjonnh (talk) 15:25, 6 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  - It's non free redirect service. Citing the QID is preferable. --- Jura 15:32, 22 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support Either a new property or just use DOI (P356) since the formatter is the same. Maybe with qualifier object of statement has role (P3831) and a new item for "short DOI"? Either way it would be very useful to have these recorded in Wikidata for correlation for example with OpenRefine (the long DOI's can be hard to reconcile!) ArthurPSmith (talk) 19:26, 5 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- I talked to the DOI foundation yesterday, the format is expected to be the same as DOI (even if internally they only use letters and numbers for now). For them, it is treated as a DOI synonym. So maybe being able to have multiple DOI by article could work. Bjonnh (talk) 15:25, 6 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- DOI (P356) is meant to be canonical so I will not support using this for short DOI.--GZWDer (talk) 21:29, 21 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Unclear what the purpose of linking to a shortened form is. JesseW (talk) 18:37, 19 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]