It is sometimes helpful to refer to an event in an unambiguous way.
In other fields, one such way of avoiding ambiguity is a Persistent Identifier (PID). The DOI foundation provides a technology through which PIDs may be minted and DataCite is a DOI-compliant registry that provides DOIs for (among other things) events. They define an event as “a non-persistent, time-based occurrence”.
My request is that Indico is updated so that it can generate DOIs for events, at least for major events (workshops, conferences and the like).
As additional material that (perhaps) might prove useful, the following article describes the process of “minting” DOIs, through DataCite, for academic events:
https://blogs.tib.eu/wp/tib/2022/10/20/how-to-mint-a-doi-for-academic-events-and-event-series/
In the article, they refer to a different event management software (ConfIDent); however, I believe the concepts could be translated to Indico equivalent ideas and concepts.
Just to be clear, I’m proposing the Indico is updated to allow an Indico deployed to be configured so that it is possible for that Indico deployment to use the DataCite API to create a DOI for an event. The DOI landing page would be the Indico page describing that event. As far as possible, Indico would maintain a description of the event, following the DataCite metadata schema, as the DOI metadata.
Two tickets have been opened regarding this idea: RQF2190087 and INC4874142.