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And just like that, several hundred scientific papers which used git.io links become incorrect https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=git.io https://scholar

And just like that, several hundred scientific papers which used git.io links become incorrect https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=git.io https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=git.io Changing the content of papers after they have been published is usually impossible or at least extremely difficult, depending on the publisher.

asvitkine 4y ago
I wonder if anyone is working on an archive?
- xucheng 4y ago
  It is unlikely because it is very difficult and maybe illegal to scrape research papers. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz for example.
  - klez 4y ago
    I think they meant an archive of git.io links.
    - xucheng 4y ago
      I mean that it is hard to scrape these git.io links used in the research papers to build the archive. Unless of course, if Github provides a DB dump, it would help everyone a lot.
      - deleted 4y ago
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- johtso 4y ago
  If anyone is it would probably be the people over at ArchiveTeam / URLTeam: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/ https://wiki.archiveteam.org/ https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/URLTeam https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/URLTeam
  - the_biot 4y ago
    It looks like they're active, but not working on git.io URLs: https://tracker.archiveteam.org:1338/status https://tracker.archiveteam.org:1338/status I have no idea how to submit shortened URLs to URLTeam, but if anyone can find out I'll be happy to scrape URLs out of that list of Google Scholar PDFs.
ktpsns 4y ago
Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) are nowadays the academia variant of URLs. DOIs are somewhat similar to URNs, they don't resolve directly somewhere in the web but are more a kind of identifier. There are various tools for resolving, see for instance https://www.doi.org/tools.html https://www.doi.org/tools.html Platforms such as https://zenodo.org/ https://zenodo.org/ allow for uploading digital artifacts such as publication attachments, supplementary codes or measurement/survey data and assigning them permanently with a DOI. Zenodo may go down, but maybe some hard disk survives and resolving that DOIs will be possible at some future web system. DOIS are built to last!
- dataflow 4y ago
  I'm confused, what's the relationship between DOIs and git.io? Are you suggesting people should be using DOIs to link to source code from within papers?
  - afandian 4y ago
    Not GP but yes. https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/archiving-a-github-repository/referencing-and-citing-content https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/archiving-a-github-r...
the_biot 4y ago
The git.io link in at least the first paper that comes up on your search (https://git.io/sosr15-int-demo https://git.io/sosr15-int-demo) appears to have been archived by archive.org, which shows the redirection and then follows it to the archived version of the final github page. I don't know how common it is for these links to have been caught by the archive, but potentially all is not lost.
- eythian 4y ago
  There is an archiveteam project that scrapes URL shorteners, so hopefully more than one might expect.

asvitkine 4y ago

I wonder if anyone is working on an archive?

xucheng 4y ago
It is unlikely because it is very difficult and maybe illegal to scrape research papers. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz for example.
- klez 4y ago
  I think they meant an archive of git.io links.
  - xucheng 4y ago
    I mean that it is hard to scrape these git.io links used in the research papers to build the archive. Unless of course, if Github provides a DB dump, it would help everyone a lot.
    - deleted 4y ago
      [deleted]
johtso 4y ago
If anyone is it would probably be the people over at ArchiveTeam / URLTeam: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/ https://wiki.archiveteam.org/ https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/URLTeam https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/URLTeam
- the_biot 4y ago
  It looks like they're active, but not working on git.io URLs: https://tracker.archiveteam.org:1338/status https://tracker.archiveteam.org:1338/status I have no idea how to submit shortened URLs to URLTeam, but if anyone can find out I'll be happy to scrape URLs out of that list of Google Scholar PDFs.

ktpsns 4y ago

Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) are nowadays the academia variant of URLs. DOIs are somewhat similar to URNs, they don't resolve directly somewhere in the web but are more a kind of identifier. There are various tools for resolving, see for instance https://www.doi.org/tools.html https://www.doi.org/tools.html Platforms such as https://zenodo.org/ https://zenodo.org/ allow for uploading digital artifacts such as publication attachments, supplementary codes or measurement/survey data and assigning them permanently with a DOI. Zenodo may go down, but maybe some hard disk survives and resolving that DOIs will be possible at some future web system. DOIS are built to last!

dataflow 4y ago
I'm confused, what's the relationship between DOIs and git.io? Are you suggesting people should be using DOIs to link to source code from within papers?
- afandian 4y ago
  Not GP but yes. https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/archiving-a-github-repository/referencing-and-citing-content https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/archiving-a-github-r...

the_biot 4y ago

The git.io link in at least the first paper that comes up on your search (https://git.io/sosr15-int-demo https://git.io/sosr15-int-demo) appears to have been archived by archive.org, which shows the redirection and then follows it to the archived version of the final github page. I don't know how common it is for these links to have been caught by the archive, but potentially all is not lost.

eythian 4y ago
There is an archiveteam project that scrapes URL shorteners, so hopefully more than one might expect.