Discussing this 2017 article on digital medieval history with MSc students later. 8 years after publication, 18.5% of its digital links no longer work. What implications does that have? www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.... - ThreadSky

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pseudo-isidore.bsky.social • 110 days ago

Discussing this 2017 article on digital medieval history with MSc students later.
8 years after publication, 18.5% of its digital links no longer work. What implications does that have?
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/694236

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monicamedhist.bsky.social•5 days ago

📌

pseudo-isidore.bsky.social•110 days ago

(The article also contains this interesting scattergraph, showing the 25 most commonly cited dates in the journal Speculum, whose chronological remit is 500-1500. The eagle-eyed may notice something)

matt1066.bsky.social•110 days ago

Obviously: the ‘Dark Ages’ are missing (probably because there’s not much to say about them ;-) Ducks and leaves the room…

politevulgarian.bsky.social•110 days ago

More than half of them are numbers ending in a ten, possibly as estimated dates?

politevulgarian.bsky.social•110 days ago

Oh, and no earlier dates than 1000 lol

magistraetmater.bsky.social•110 days ago

I am stumped - what happened in 1430 that is so important to US medievalists?

matt1066.bsky.social•109 days ago

Place your trust only in parchment. 📜

handle.invalid•5 days ago

I have believed for a long time that each university ought to establish a secure digital repository, in which copies would be stored of every source referenced in any work published by anyone there.

handle.invalid•5 days ago

In addition to the broken links, there is a good chance that some of the links that do work now lead to something that is different from what was originally cited.

dasdoak.bsky.social•5 days ago

Linkrot is a serious problem; you can reduce it by including a direct link to the Internet archive entry for the day you accessed the data but, ultimately, that also has a shelf life and limited functionality.

dasdoak.bsky.social•5 days ago

Sometimes the only option is to literally export the page as it appears and include it in the appendix.

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