ShortDOI Roadmap

sdflewrit783
@bwiernik

Will you be maintaining ShortDOI plugin into the future? We find it very useful still.

The concern is that if Zotero 8 will not have the ShortDOI plug we shall end up with a lot of manual conversion back to long DOI codes.

It also seems that plugin does not support the new DOI fields for extra reference types.

It would be good to have the plugin updated and maintained or, if this will not happen, to have an advice on its discontinuation so that we would be able to convert all to long DOI.

Thanks.
  • bwiernik
    Regardless of whether I have time to update the plugin, I do not recommend using shortDOI for any purpose. It is not a service that is maintained or advocated by CrossRef anymore, and shortDOI will not work with other systems like Zotero’s retraction notices. I recommend converting everything back to long DOI.
  • sdflewrit783
    edited 10 minutes ago
    We had this conversation before. The advice I received from the DOI Foundation who run the ShortDOI service (not CrossRef) at the time was that ShortDOI service was going to continue with no plans for termination. They also expressed their concern about the unfounded rumours of this service's demise. This was 6 years ago, and the service is fully functional now. I have not been asking them since.

    But as you seem to make no promises, we shall convert to long DOI. It is a pity because those machine-readable codes are long, ugly, and waste space/resources. They undermine good design principles in formats intended for human eyes.

    Here is a comparison (as you can see, the forum parser cannot even recognise the long version as one link):

    Long: https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-0266(199707)18:1+<187::AID-SMJ936>3.0.CO;2-K

    Short: https://doi.org/dh9hh6
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