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Wednesday, January 22, 2014
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Think about "persistent identifiers" which means that things go by agreed id's just to keep it simple questions is how long? But, long term persistent cannot be promised because programming languages will change in the future or a system to make the old language work which could harm current languages used.
Different type of problem ..huh..URL's and domain names versus time almost makes them human....this idea of "persistent" is a issue for us info pro's in academic world for located dissertations or research papers in the long term. We need to develop the social construct that people maintain which in turn will create this "persistent" identifiers that can live forever as far as we know.
Yes in the future I would like to electronically access my deceased grandmother thesis, won't you.
As the famous band Queen said, "Who wants to live forever."
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Good description of the problem! But what are we going to do to replace the citation? I.e., the Journal name, volume and first page number that uniquely identifies every article in the bibliographic universe (or in your local library)? That's what keeps ME up at night! ;-)
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