Robust Links - a proposed solution to reference rot in scholarly communication
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Robust Links @mart1nkle1n IIPC WAC, 06/16/2017, London, UK Robust Links – A Proposed Solution to Reference Rot in Scholarly Communication Martin Klein @mart1nkle1n Herbert Van de Sompel @hvdsomp Research Library Los Alamos National Laboratory http://robustlinks.mementoweb.org/
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Robust Links
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IIPC WAC, 06/16/2017, London, UK
Robust Links –
A Proposed Solution to Reference Rot
in Scholarly Communication
Martin Klein@mart1nkle1n
Herbert Van de Sompel@hvdsomp
Research Library
Los Alamos National Laboratory
http://robustlinks.mementoweb.org/
Robust Links
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• Links break
• Referenced content changes
Author’s intention with such links is not reproducible!
Can we:
1. make links more robust?
2. actionable for humans and machines?
Problem
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https://web.archive.org/web/20161228184110/https://www.epa.gov/climatechange
EPA
12/2016
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https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/signpost/cc.html
EPA
today
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Robust Links
1. Create a snapshot of referenced resources in a public web
archive
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Common Practice – Archived URI
URI of archived snapshot
https://web.archive.org/web/20071011083729/http://islandheritage.org/faq.html
Capture datetime
But what if URI-M is:
http://archive.is/MTMKu
or
https://www.mummify.it/XbmcMfE3
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Robust Links
1. Create a snapshot of referenced resources in a publically available
web archive
2. Decorate links with:
• URI of archived snapshot
• datetime of archiving
• resource’s original URI
Benefits:
• Can visit live version of referenced resource
• Original URI allows finding captures in all web archives
• Capture datetime allows finding an appropriate capture in all
web archives
• Uniform, machine-actionable
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Link Decoration
<a href="http://netpreserve.org/wac2017/"IIPC Web Archiving Week</a>
http://robustlinks.mementoweb.org/spec
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Link Decoration
<a href="http://netpreserve.org/wac2017/"
data-versionurl="http://archive.is/1y5w3"data-versiondate="2017-06-13">
IIPC Web Archiving Week</a>
http://robustlinks.mementoweb.org/spec
Robust Links
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Link Decoration
<a href="http://archive.is/1y5w3"
data-originalurl="http://netpreserve.org/wac2017/"data-versiondate="2017-06-13">
IIPC Web Archiving Week</a>
http://robustlinks.mementoweb.org/spec
Robust Links
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Link Decoration in Action
http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/november2015-vandesompel
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Link Decoration in Action
http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/november2015-vandesompel
