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

[Dave Walden]

Historian Jim Cortada recommends keeping copies of web pages one sites in
his book Hunting History.  One could submit the URL copies along with one's
contributions to an archive.

On Sat, May 8, 2021, 4:46 PM John Day via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> Couldn’t agree more.  A URL as a citation is practically useless. The
> Internet is not much of an archive.
>
> > On May 8, 2021, at 16:17, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > 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
>
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