Digital Object Identifiers for Scientific Data
http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/dsj/4/0/12/_pdf
  peer-reviewed

Paskin, Norman
Data Science Journal
2005

Abstract:

The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is a system for identifying content objects in the digital environment. DOIs are names assigned to any entity for use on Internet digital networks. Scientific data sets may be identified by DOIs, and several efforts are now underway in this area. This paper outlines the underlying architecture of the DOI system, and two such efforts which are applying DOIs to content objects of scientific data.