[ih] Link rot (was: Museum archiving (was: Re: IENs))

[Brian E Carpenter]

On 09-May-21 02:44, Ole Jacobsen via Internet-history wrote:
...
> I'll just note that there used to be a direct URL for ConneXions in the CBI
> hosted publications archive, but that has recently changed. Another peril
> of online museums. 

Indeed, and I wonder whether this august body could somehow try to change the thinking of archivists about that problem. Just over the last year or so, I've been digging in archives quite a bit (for  doi.org/10.1109/MAHC.2020.2990647 and a forthcoming follow-up) and even in that time, some URLs have rotted, which makes it annoying to go back and follow up a new detail, and invalidates published citations. Over the longer term, say 10 years, even more links rot and search results become misleading or useless.

(Or maybe that's a topic for the SIGCIS list.)

Regards
   Brian Carpenter