Persistent URIs Must Be Used To Be Persistent
Herbert Van de Sompel, Martin Klein, Shawn M. Jones

TL;DR
This paper investigates the use of persistent HTTP URIs in scholarly references, highlighting the prevalence of non-persistent links, analyzing reasons for this issue, and proposing solutions to improve citation durability.
Contribution
It quantifies the usage of persistent URIs in scholarly references and proposes an approach to increase their adoption for better citation persistence.
Findings
Many references do not use persistent URIs.
Authors often choose brittle URIs over persistent ones.
Proposed approach aims to improve URI persistence in citations.
Abstract
We quantify the extent to which references to papers in scholarly literature use persistent HTTP URIs that leverage the Digital Object Identifier infrastructure. We find a significant number of references that do not, speculate why authors would use brittle URIs when persistent ones are available, and propose an approach to alleviate the problem.
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Taxonomy
TopicsSemantic Web and Ontologies · Data Quality and Management · Research Data Management Practices
