http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/planning-for-link-rot-in-article-bibliography Digital Humanities Questions & Answers » Topic: Planning for link rot in article bibliography en-US Tue, 02 Aug 2016 16:34:01 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/search.php http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/planning-for-link-rot-in-article-bibliography#post-2143 Thu, 30 Jan 2014 19:52:57 +0000 Ben Marwick 2143@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ <p>Another free web archiving service is <a href="http://www.webcitation.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.webcitation.org/</a> This is required for citing webpages by journals published by Wiley. </p> http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/planning-for-link-rot-in-article-bibliography#post-2126 Mon, 28 Oct 2013 11:46:08 +0000 quinnanya 2126@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ <p><em>Replying to @kevin.s.hawkins's <a href="http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/planning-for-link-rot-in-article-bibliography#post-2119">post</a>:</em></p> <p>Thanks, Kevin! perma.cc looks perfect for this. When I went to the webpage and saw it a "request beta access" sign-up form, I wasn't optimistic that it'd be ready in time for me to submit the paper. To my surprise and delight, though, I got a beta account notification yesterday, so now I'm set. </p> http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/planning-for-link-rot-in-article-bibliography#post-2122 Tue, 22 Oct 2013 11:23:06 +0000 quinnanya 2122@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ <p><em>Replying to @<a href='/profile/acrymble'>acrymble</a>'s <a href="http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/planning-for-link-rot-in-article-bibliography#post-2120">post</a>:</em></p> <p>Neat, I didn't realize you could do that. I think it runs into the same basic problem, though, as my scenario #2: all in all, there's probably 100 relevant pages (including child and grandchild pages), and I'd rather avoid saving them all individually if possible. </p> http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/planning-for-link-rot-in-article-bibliography#post-2120 Tue, 22 Oct 2013 09:22:51 +0000 acrymble 2120@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ <p><em>Replying to @<a href='/profile/quinnanya'>quinnanya</a>'s <a href="http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/planning-for-link-rot-in-article-bibliography#post-2117">post</a>:</em></p> <p>You could ask the Internet Archive to archive the pages in question (<a href="http://faq.web.archive.org/can-i-get-just-one-page-archived/" rel="nofollow">http://faq.web.archive.org/can-i-get-just-one-page-archived/</a>) and then use the links in the archive. </p> http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/planning-for-link-rot-in-article-bibliography#post-2119 Tue, 22 Oct 2013 09:11:07 +0000 Kevin Hawkins 2119@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ <p>Maybe use <a href="http://perma.cc/" rel="nofollow">http://perma.cc/</a> . This is a brand new service that's been getting a fair amount of publicity. </p> http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/planning-for-link-rot-in-article-bibliography#post-2118 Tue, 22 Oct 2013 09:06:41 +0000 Dorothea Salo 2118@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ <p>You could link to an Internet Archive version of the page, should that exist. That would have the added benefit of dating your access (up to a point; it won't be perfectly precise). </p> http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/planning-for-link-rot-in-article-bibliography#post-2117 Tue, 22 Oct 2013 08:58:26 +0000 quinnanya 2117@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ <p>I'm working on an article where most of my bibliography entries involve links to university wiki pages, or documents hosted by that same wiki service. I don't have a ton of confidence that the service will necessarily exist in five years, or at least, that it will exist in a way that won't break all the links. I'm personally committed to ensuring that the content remains available; in the past, when I've just needed a reliable link to an isolated wiki page, I've re-posted wiki content on my own website and used that link. It'd be harder to do that here, though, because in many cases I'm referencing entire sections of the wiki, consisting of multiple pages. When/if the day comes for me to "rescue" the whole thing, I'd probably take a different approach than re-posting content. I'd also expect that when/if the wiki service shuts down or changes, it probably won't be possible to set up (even temporarily) a redirect to wherever I'm hosting the content instead.</p> <p>Any suggestions for what I should do about these links in the paper? The three options that've come to mind, in increasing order of appeal, are:</p> <p>1) Just use the current links, and get over it.<br /> 2) Include a link to a page on my own site somewhere in the paper, where I'll maintain a current list of reference URLs.<br /> 3) Look into creating an <a href="http://www.cdlib.org/services/uc3/ezid/">EZID</a> for each of the links, and use that to update the URL (I'm not 100% sure if I'll be able to get access to the EZID service).</p> <p>Has anyone come up with an elegant solution for this? </p>