{"id":25513,"date":"2023-06-02T15:16:07","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T15:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/?p=25513"},"modified":"2023-12-03T15:17:20","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T15:17:20","slug":"on-linkrot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2023\/06\/02\/on-linkrot\/","title":{"rendered":"On linkrot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new study of linkrot in <em>Digital Humanities Quarterly<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230612122816\/https:\/\/digitalhumanities.org\/dhq\/vol\/17\/1\/000662\/000662.html\">\u201cReference Rot in the Digital Humanities Literature\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[in the DHQ sample] over a quarter of sampled citations are links to websites. Over 30% of these references are [now] inaccessible or have additional access barriers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps we need a copyright-busting AI for this? Imagine that, with \u2018one press of a button\u2019, a ref-bot AI goes and visits\/reads the reference links at the time of the article\u2019s publication, and thus produces a unified set of summaries. Perhaps with each summary weighted towards topics being discussed in the paragraph before the point-of-citation. The result would then be offered alongside the published article, as an appendix. Since AI-made text cannot be in copyright, the publishers\u2019s lawyers would presumably not swoon at such an idea. Of course, the author would then have to fact-check and human-approve it as correct. But that should not be to onerous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study of linkrot in Digital Humanities Quarterly, \u201cReference Rot in the Digital Humanities Literature\u201d. \u201c[in the DHQ sample] &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2023\/06\/02\/on-linkrot\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25515,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25513\/revisions\/25515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}