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To take your point to the next step, how do two otherwise unrelated journals (of which there are tens of thousands) link between each other and solve link rot?
by afandian 5y ago
To take your point to the next step, how do two otherwise unrelated journals (of which there are tens of thousands) link between each other and solve link rot? Answer: shared open non profit metadata infrastructure.
Disclaimer - I’m at Crossref AMA.
- krab 5y agoTheoretically, the journals could publish a canonical URL for each article. But apparently organizations are not good at publishing and maintaining such URLs. Especially in case of mergers and rebrandings.
- afandian 5y agoThat canonical URL is literally what the DOI system is. Publishers getting together to agree on a shared identifier system, regardless of each publisher's business model.