The Atlantic: The Internet Is Rotting
I found the following article on "link rot" interesting... The Internet Is Rotting "Too much has been lost already. The glue that holds humanity’s knowledge together is coming undone." https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/06/the-internet-is-a-col... Hope the above link will still work for a while!... ;) Gilbert
Interesting, but it's always been this way. I think sometimes it's more a matter of trying to hold up your own end (things like sitemap.xml on a site), and setting expectations that it's all pretty ephemeral. I subscribe to the Pinboard.in bookmarking service, and it includes archiving of bookmarked pages. An interesting aspect of this is that it also provides a list of non-OK error responses found, and which pages returned that. So you can go in, try to fix them with updated versions, or just understand that that old link is now kaput. Gilbert E. Detillieux <gedetil@gmail.com> writes:
I found the following article on "link rot" interesting...
The Internet Is Rotting "Too much has been lost already. The glue that holds humanity’s knowledge together is coming undone."
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/06/the-internet-is-a-col...
Hope the above link will still work for a while!... ;)
Gilbert _______________________________________________ Roundtable mailing list Roundtable@muug.ca https://muug.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable
Mathematicians have been worrying about dead links to their research for some time. As a result, a consortium called Crossref emerged (https://www.crossref.org/). If your reference has a doi (digital object identifier) a generic link can be used. For example https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-95704-8 will link you to a book, even though it was written in 1994, long before Crossref was started. Cheers, Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael Doob Telephone: (204) 474-9796 Department of Mathematics email: Michael.Doob@UManitoba.ca University of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB, Canada R3T 2N2 ------------------------------------------------------------------ ________________________________________ From: Roundtable <roundtable-bounces@muug.ca> on behalf of Tim Lavoie <tim@fractaldragon.net> Sent: July 5, 2021 12:54 To: roundtable@muug.ca Subject: Re: [RndTbl] The Atlantic: The Internet Is Rotting ******************************************************** Caution: This message was sent from outside the University of Manitoba. ******************************************************** Interesting, but it's always been this way. I think sometimes it's more a matter of trying to hold up your own end (things like sitemap.xml on a site), and setting expectations that it's all pretty ephemeral. I subscribe to the Pinboard.in bookmarking service, and it includes archiving of bookmarked pages. An interesting aspect of this is that it also provides a list of non-OK error responses found, and which pages returned that. So you can go in, try to fix them with updated versions, or just understand that that old link is now kaput. Gilbert E. Detillieux <gedetil@gmail.com> writes:
I found the following article on "link rot" interesting...
The Internet Is Rotting "Too much has been lost already. The glue that holds humanity’s knowledge together is coming undone."
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/06/the-internet-is-a-col...
Hope the above link will still work for a while!... ;)
Gilbert _______________________________________________ Roundtable mailing list Roundtable@muug.ca https://muug.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable
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A great article! But, how ironic that one of the links in the article, namely https://perma.cc/XJ5J-YUDM has already rotted ("not found")! Furthermore, perma.cc is a co-creation of the author. Hartmut W Sager - Tel +1-204-339-8331 On Mon, 5 Jul 2021 at 10:31, Gilbert E. Detillieux <gedetil@gmail.com> wrote:
I found the following article on "link rot" interesting...
The Internet Is Rotting "Too much has been lost already. The glue that holds humanity’s knowledge together is coming undone."
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/06/the-internet-is-a-col...
Hope the above link will still work for a while!... ;)
Gilbert _______________________________________________ Roundtable mailing list Roundtable@muug.ca https://muug.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable
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