Mike Taylor

As more academics make their way into Mastodon, finding some way to make DOIs searchable is going to be really important. Whether or not recognising them as a special-case pattern...

@mkitti Making all URLs searchable would solve this problem, yes, though in a rather clumsy way. (In principle, the `http://` is the means of resolution and `dx.doi.org` is the service...

I get the reasoning behind general non-searchability being a feature. But here we're talking about people mentioning specific identifiable resources by identifier, a scenario where — just when using hashtags...

@bnlawrence I agree that this issue may be suboptimal in suggesting a specific change rather than starting from what problem we're trying to solve. But the problem is a real...

@jedbrown Yes, that sounds great to me!

Promising, @afontenot, thanks: https://fedsearch.io/?q=10.7717%2Fpeerj.12810

I beg your pardon; DOIs are _not_ just URLs. `10.7717/peerj.12810` is a DOI; https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12810 is a URL, and not even a unique one. http://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12810 is equivalent; so are https://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12810 and...

Well, I am not too hung up on _how_ it's implemented. To me, the bottom line here is that we need a way to have unique references to articles searchable,...

Ways to make DOIs searchable in Mastodon, in no particular order. 1. Change the existing definition of what's included in a hashtag, so that dots and slashes are included. Example:...

@twi001 I'm sorry to say I really don't like that at all. As I've argued upthread, DOIs are identifiers. The fact that some specific URL-shortening service happens to redirect to...