The Rotting Internet Is a Collective Hallucination - The Atlantic
Remarkable that he can write all this without once mentioning DOIs.
#linkrot
PLOS ONE: Scholarly Context Not Found: One in Five Articles Suffers from Reference Rot
Intuitively, one would assume that URI references to journal articles can readily be recognized by detecting HTTP URIs that carry a DOI, e.g., http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00799-014-0108-0. However, it turns out that references rather frequently have a direct link to an article in a publisher's portal, e.g. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00799-014-0108-0, instead of the DOI link. As a result, URI references to scholarly articles were recognized as follows:
Robust Links
In any case, anybody wanting to read/cite @zittrain on #linkrot can see it at http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2329161
And there isn’t really a use-case for making scholarly and legal citation infrastructure compatible, is there? #linkrot #precedent