stoqs
Citing STOQS data
It would be great to have a way to cite a STOQS page showing data from a single campaign. For example, perhaps each campaign could be assigned a DOI or handle and the URL to which the DOI redirects could be updated when/if the web hosting infrastructure changes.
This is an interesting suggestion!
STOQS software is under active development and our experience in deploying it to support research at MBARI has revealed typical problems with "link rot". For example, early datasets built on Django 1.3 and PostgreSQL 9.1 are hosted at http://odss.mbari.org/canon. Current datasets built on Django 1.8 and PostgreSQL 9.3 are hosted at http://stoqs.mbari.org:8000/. About this time next year we will upgrade to Django 1.11 and PostgreSQL 9.5 and the URL will likely change again.
I intend to have this page always refer to MBARI's current STOQS public server. I wonder if there are best practices or technical solutions to address this "link rot" problem. Such solutions should work for anyone who installs their own STOQS server.
