DOIs could be stored for lookup in a blockchain. Isn't there currently a centralized single point of failure in DOI and ORCID resolution?

Users would generate and centrally register or receive a generated W3C DID keypair with which to sign their ScholarlyArticles and peer review CreativeWorks.

W3D DID Decentralized Identifiers solve for what DOI and ORCID solve for without requiring a central registry.

W3C PROV is for describing provenance. PROV RDF can be signed with a DID sk.

PDFs can be signed with their own digital signature scheme, but there's no good way to publish Linked Data in a PDF (prepared as a LaTeX manuscript for example).

Bibliographic and experimental control metadata is only so useful in assuring provenance and authenticity of article and data and peer reviews which legitimize.

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28382186 :

>> JOSS (Journal of Open Source Software) has managed to get articles indexed by Google Scholar [rescience_gscholar]. They publish their costs [joss_costs]: $275 Crossref membership, DOIs: $1/paper: