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   Glitzersachen.de (glitzersachen@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jul-2024 14:11:27 JST Glitzersachen.de

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   • Jonathan Corbet
   • ferricoxide

   @ferricoxide @corbet

   ... And links the need a third party service to resolve at reading time just rot faster (since the rot rate of a shortener (e.g.) is not 0).

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     • Jonathan Corbet
     • ferricoxide

     @ferricoxide @corbet

     This all is a problem because the written artifacts of our civilization make up the body of knowledge that spans generations. We're now discovering (have been for some time) that having a medium (the web and its services) which is prone to rot (links and availability) endangers knowledge accumulated by the generations currently alive.

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     • Jonathan Corbet
     • ferricoxide

     @ferricoxide @corbet

     You know this is a different situation? Archivists and librarians (and scientist) are typically concerned about references to stuff they don't have archived and or reference which don't uniquely identify a class of identical copies of the referenced item. Therefor the need to reference book (author, title, year) as well as edition and printing.

     Links to web pages on the other side suffer from link rot because they don't solve the archivist's problem. ...