Sparked off by a comment on Document Object Identifiers and metrics by Ernesto Priego, I wrote up a brief proposal for the tech side of what I perceived as the function of DOIs. It turns out, there's a great deal more to it.

http://storify.com/martin_eve/dois-what-you-need-to-know

Featured image by biblioteekje under a CC-BY-NC-SA license.

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