Willkommen bei nestor, dem deutschen Kompetenznetzwerk zur digitalen Langzeitarchivierung. In nestor arbeiten Bibliotheken, Archive, Museen sowie führende Experten gemeinsam zum Thema Langzeitarchivierung und Langzeitverfügbarkeit digitaler Quellen. Ziel dieses BMBF-geförderten Projektes ist der Aufbau einer dauerhaften Organisationsform für alle Belange der Langzeitarchivierung sowie nationale und internationale Abstimmungen und Aufgabenteilungen.
The Problem
Authors increasingly cite webpages and other digital objects on the Internet, which can "disappear" overnight. In one study published in the journal Science, 13% of Internet references in scholarly articles were inactive after only 27 months. Another problem is that cited webpages may change, so that readers see something different than what the citing author saw. The problem of unstable webcitations and the lack of routine digital preservation of cited digital objects has been referred to as an issue "calling for an immediate response" by publishers and authors [1].
An increasing number of editors and publishers ask that authors, when they cite a webpage, make a local copy of the cited webpage/webmaterial, and archive the cited URL in a system like WebCite®, to enable readers permanent access to the cited material.