Martin Klein and Herbert Van de Sompel

Martin Klein is an analyst at the University of California, Los Angeles Research Library. He can be found on Twitter @mart1nkle1n. Herbert Van de Sompel is the team leader of the Prototyping Team at the research library of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The team does research regarding various aspects of scholarly communication in the digital age. He can be found on Twitter @hvdsomp

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The Digital Scholar: Reference Rot and Link Decorations

You have written a paper and linked to your literature and resources. All is good, except that many of those links that are tied to permanent identifiers may fade away over time — a significant problem for scholarly purposes. Martin Klein and Herbert Van de Sompel explore ways to mitigate this problem through more systematic web archiving practices and link decoration techniques.

8 years ago
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