WebCite - Persistent URLs for publishers

November 14, 2007

My favorite techie points us to WebCite.

WebCite has a different, and very special, mission. It’s for scholarly and professional authors whose articles are themselves persistently linkable by way of Digital Object Identifiers. Increasingly those articles cite more ephemeral things, like blog entries. Using a WebCite bookmarklet, these authors can produce URLs that point to archived copies of web pages. Think Wayback Machine, but you can ask to have an item archived and be sure that it will be.

A laudable effort and one I hope will be supported by all publishers. Perhaps it can be part of a standard for linking publications with web content

Of course, this only adds to the challenge of trying to understand, define, and consolidate online identity.

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