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February 10, 2021 by Gary Price

New Journal Article: “Robustifying Links To Combat Reference Rot”

February 10, 2021 by Gary Price

The article linked to below was published in a new issue (#50) of Code4Lib Journal earlier today.

Title

Robustifying Links to Combat Reference Rot

Authors

Shawn Jones
Old Dominion University

Martin Klein
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Herbert Van de Sompel
Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS), The Hague, The Netherlands

Source

The Code 4 Library Journal (#50)
February 10, 2020

Abstract

Links to web resources frequently break, and linked content can change at unpredictable rates. These dynamics of the Web are detrimental when references to web resources provide evidence or supporting information.

Source: journal.code4lib.org/articles/15509

In this paper, we highlight the significance of reference rot, provide an overview of existing techniques and their characteristics to address it, and introduce our Robust Links approach, including its web service and underlying API. Robustifying links offers a proactive, uniform, and machine-actionable way to combat reference rot. In addition, we discuss our reasoning and approach aimed at keeping the approach functional for the long term. To showcase our approach, we have robustified all links in this article.

Direct to Full Text Article

Direct to Robustify Your Links

Direct to Complete Code4Lib Journal (#50) TOC

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Gary Price (gprice@mediasourceinc.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. Before launching INFOdocket, Price and Shirl Kennedy were the founders and senior editors at ResourceShelf and DocuTicker for 10 years. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com, and is currently a contributing editor at Search Engine Land.

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