Post by @raffaele@digipres.club

2026-01-16 09:24 UTC

@samwilson@wikis.world I agree with the print option. Even if we adopt minimal technology (plain HTML or better text files) and replicate to multiple hosts (without the guarantee that they will be operational in future) the problem of discoverability remains: how will we know the addresses of these copies? We probably needs to print the addresses somewhere, too.

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@kiru@openbiblio.social 2026-01-16 10:10

@raffaele@digipres.club @samwilson@wikis.world There are some techniques for specifying alternative URLs, e.g. Datacite's metadata schema provides a field for this, maybe it can be done with https://signposting.org/, and I guess the LOCKSS community (Lots of Copies Keep your Stuff Safe) also have a suggestion.

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@beet_keeper@digipres.club 2026-01-16 11:15

@raffaele@digipres.club @samwilson@wikis.world @kiru@openbiblio.social reminds me of the internet address books you read existed before search engines. Indexing/finding-aids for what's there do seem really important. I wondered that about a .gov site the other day. Great, it's archived via archive.org, but how do you find it if you didn't know it existed? How do you link back to it if it is somewhere else? There are small search tricks on archive.org that help but the complexity of the archived web is high!

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