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Re:To preserve their work journalists take archiving into th... by walterbell on Sunday August 04, 2024 @10:52AM (#41153922)
> references section with links to about 100 websites.

Books deserve a github repo with PDF web archives of referenced links, the same way that Wikipedia mirrors the content of cited links.

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Re:To preserve their work journalists take archiving into th... by SirMaster on Sunday August 04, 2024 @12:06PM (#41154401)
But wouldn't that be a big waste if everyone who references the same thing is then keeping a copy of it.
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Re:To preserve their work journalists take archiving into th... by progbits on Sunday August 04, 2024 @12:14PM (#41154450)
Better many copies than none. References usually mean written text and maybe some figures, cost of storage is going down, we can afford the duplication.
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Re:To preserve their work journalists take archiving into th... by throwup238 on Sunday August 04, 2024 @12:28PM (#41154554)
One person’s waste is another person’s resilience.
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Re:To preserve their work journalists take archiving into th... by walterbell on Sunday August 04, 2024 @12:45PM (#41154703)
> big waste

Storage cost has fallen exponentially for decades, https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/the-price-of-comput...

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Re:To preserve their work journalists take archiving into th... by Bluestein on Sunday August 04, 2024 @05:29PM (#41156469)
> everyone who references the same thing is then keeping a copy of it.

... and it would serve as a form of redundancy, imitating the fungible nature of physical media: In order to cite the latest, copied, manuscript (for example) you needed to own a physical copy. They existence of these has enabled survival of works that would otherwise have been lost, or even reconstruction through ecdotics.-

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Re:To preserve their work journalists take archiving into th... by JohnFen on Monday August 05, 2024 @12:50PM (#41163028)
Redundancy isn't really a waste.
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Re:To preserve their work journalists take archiving into th... by ekianjo on Sunday August 04, 2024 @11:43AM (#41154250)
certainly not GitHub
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Re:To preserve their work journalists take archiving into th... by walterbell on Sunday August 04, 2024 @01:27PM (#41155043)
What would you recommend instead?
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Re:To preserve their work journalists take archiving into th... by Intralexical on Sunday August 04, 2024 @10:21PM (#41157654)
Copyright permitting, big QR code containing the plain text.
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Re:To preserve their work journalists take archiving into th... by InsideOutSanta on Monday August 05, 2024 @07:24AM (#41160150)
There are all kinds of publisher and legal issues. Trust me, I did my best.
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Re:To preserve their work journalists take archiving into th... by walterbell on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @03:04AM (#41178914)
Could Wikipedia or Archive.org offer references-as-a-service to book publishers for a small fee? They already have the infrastructure and legal cover.
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