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Permanence of Permalinks #18

Open kemitchell opened 4 years ago

kemitchell commented 4 years ago

@dfligor brought up the question of reliability and longevity of publishing. That's come up in private conversations, too. But I'd like to air it here, as well.

The first line of defense is expressing clearly what we intend to do. This is why each page for each edition of a clause, like this one, explicitly specifies a "permalink". Right now they also like to the Wikipedia page on permalinks, which goes to the crux:

A permalink or permanent link is a URL that is intended to remain unchanged for many years into the future, yielding a hyperlink that is less susceptible to link rot.

The second line of defense is digital archiving. We get GitHub's archiving, including, apparently, its Arctic backup program. And we can leverage third-party archives, like Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.

Finally, I plan to implement publishing of an annual print version of the catalog suitable for deposit with Library of Congress, as well as public sale. I envision these mostly as short-run, high-quality, archival-standard bound volumes, small at first, but growing in time.

kemitchell commented 4 years ago

b475f4aba3b45d0de8f07182848f4f71fe852cb7 added https://stonecutters.law/permanence, which copies over and adapts some of a similar page on commonform.org.