We All Know What We Mean, Can We Just Put It In The Policy?
by Todd A Carpenter
"There is an elephant in the scholarly infrastructure room and, while some are ready to talk about it generally, few want to describe that elephant in all its glorious detail. That elephant is the guidance organizations provide to the community about the use of persistent identifiers in our community. At present, the guidance is too vague and it needs to be specific, at least at a high level, in order for the national and international mandates to be most effective..."