>>12281145>>12281274That's why we should be using magnet links. If literally anyone has the document still online, a magnet always works. It even works when nations actively try to suppress the information as long as someone dares to fight back. It even works if the source is a dozen PDFs, a PowerPoint, a Python script, and a 500MB talk by the author. A magnet can include a display name for humans to reference, and fallback url in case the original source is not content addressable. Online libraries should be serving data via magnet as well as the online portal, and should provide an auto generated magnet to make citations completely trivial and standardized.
But nah, don't listen to the computer scientists. I'm sure your soup of standards which may or may not let you find sources depending on how badly the author fucked up the manual entry process and how obscure the source is, is just as good.
