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Re: WebCite – Persistent URLs for publishers

Mr. Gunn — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:30:17 -0000

The people at CrossRef have weighed in on this, and given their previous experience , I think they merit a listen.

At least CrossRef knows that you can request addition of material to archive.org, one of the raisons d'être given by webcite for the use of its service instead of archive.org

Re: WebCite – Persistent URLs for publishers

mndoci — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:10:27 -0000

I actually don't mind the human readable issue, since IMO the best use for something like this is for machines. I do agree that putting everything in one repository is not the best idea, but I do like the idea of an aggregation URI, especially one that persists information.

Early days for a lot of such stuff. Things will get better as time goes on.

Re: WebCite – Persistent URLs for publishers

Mr. Gunn — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:53:38 -0000

I'm concerned about the way this is being done. For one, using a TinyURL scheme destroys the human readable info in the permalinks we've all worked to create. Second, I doubt that putting everything into one central repository will improve the percent availability of the collection, and if something does happen, there's a central point of failure.

Is the cost of a high-availability web mirror database equal to or below the value of citations that the content owner and citing author don't find important enough to keep updated themselves?

Re: WebCite – Persistent URLs for publishers

pluto — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 02:39:52 -0000

on a slightly related note, check out this greasemonkey script I've been working on to add citation data to Pubmed searches: http://userscripts.org/scri...