Post by @kiru@openbiblio.social

2026-01-16 10:10 UTC

@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 11:12

@kiru@openbiblio.social @raffaele@digipres.club @samwilson@wikis.world robust links was/is a thing. Ironically the website has been down a while but the spec is still up: https://github.com/iipc/robustlinks I create snippets for their use via https://httpreserve.info

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@samwilson@wikis.world 2026-01-17 03:23

@kiru@openbiblio.social @raffaele@digipres.club Yes, I think setting up multiple alternative URLs right from the beginning is a great idea. It feels like the modern approach of simplified websites (Markdown, Yaml frontmatter, etc.) is simultaneously splitting sites apart (i.e. the images etc get stored elsewhere) but also making them easier to replicate and so more resilient. I'm currently trying to figure out the easiest way to still make a dump of such a site, when its heavy content is on the Internet Archive etc.

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@samwilson@wikis.world 2026-01-17 03:26

@kiru@openbiblio.social @raffaele@digipres.club I've seen some people suggest that organisations should offer subdomains to their members, in order to minimise the domain ownership risk.

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