Does anyone here know persistent identifier jokes? There hardly seem to be any. People could start to see us as a very serious community.
(It is also hard to find archivist humor. At least librarians love a good joke, they always get the reference.)
Please share your persistent identifier jokes, fun, humor.
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Why did the DOI refuse to go on a date with the metadata? Because it was worried of getting too much information
I asked Bard, this is what it came up with:
Why did the DOI, ORCID, and ROR go to the bar?
To get a drink and unwind after a long day of being persistent!
Not half bad
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Persistent identifiers have it tough. Even when they have nothing to show, the show must go on.
Why did the PID cross the road? It saw a crosswalk. PIDs love crosswalks, what can I say?
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I knew an identifier that struggled for years. People enjoyed working with it. It had great metadata like a title, authors…even a type. But it had never gotten a date. But finally one day, it did. And you want to know why? Because it was persistent.
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- Why did the digital object identifier break up with the URL? It wanted something more permanent in the relationship!
- Why do persistent identifiers make terrible comedians? Because they always want their jokes to be cited!
- Why was the persistent identifier afraid of the dark? Because it didn’t want to be non-resolvable!
- I told my computer I needed a break from all the DOI links. It replied, “I can’t handle that!”
- How do you organize a space party? You planet with ORCID iDs!
- What do you call an overworked DOI? A stretched thin identifier!
- Why did the researcher get along so well with their persistent identifier? Because it never left their side and always pointed to their achievements!
- Persistent identifiers and researchers have a symbiotic relationship: one cannot survive without being cited by the other!
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