[seqfan] Re: Changing References to Links

[Charles Greathouse]

> The reason to keep both is that links may disappear, while the references *stay*

I'm not sure what you mean.

If a reference is

%D A. Writer, "Foo is in bar", Journal name 7:11 (1992), pp. 67-71.

and it is changed to the link

%H A. Writer, <a href="http://example.com/~writer/foo-bar.pdf">Foo is
in bar</a>, Journal name 7:11 (1992), pp. 67-71.

and then the link goes dead, there's no loss.  The reference
information is intact, and perhaps the link can even be accessed
through the Internet Archive, Google's cache, the same link structure
at Dr. Writer's new university, etc.

Charles Greathouse
Analyst/Programmer
Case Western Reserve University

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Alexander P-sky <apovolot at gmail.com> wrote:
>>If there is a reference, move it to the link section and delete the reference.
>>There is *no* reason to keep both.
> The reason to keep both is that links may disappear, while the references *stay*
>
> On 2/14/11, Richard Mathar <mathar at strw.leidenuniv.nl> wrote:
>>
>> http://list.seqfan.eu/pipermail/seqfan/2011-February/007147.html
>>
>> ds> From: David Scambler
>> ds> To: "seqfan at list.seqfan.eu" <seqfan at list.seqfan.eu>
>> ds> Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 22:51:32 -0600
>> ds> Subject: [seqfan] Changing References to Links
>> ds>
>> ds> What is the etiquette for changing a reference to a link when you
>> ds> notice that the article is on the web?
>> ds>
>> ds> For example. In sequences A091869, A092107, A098747
>> ds>
>> ds> Y. Sun, The statistic "number of udu's" in Dyck paths,
>> ds> Discrete Math., 237 (2004), 177-186.
>> ds>
>> ds> is available at
>> http://www.combinatorics.cn/publications/papers/2004/udu.pdf
>>
>> If there is a reference, move it to the link section and delete the
>> reference.
>> There is *no* reason to keep both.
>>
>> It does not matter whether this is subscription based or a "freely
>> available"
>> article; a clickable interface is just better than forcing everybody through
>> a manual search through some local library tools; we are living in an
>> Internet
>> age. Also note that some URL's become freely available after a "moving wall"
>> of restricted access; nobody would not want to re-edit the OEIS again to
>> keep
>> track of these time-dependent things.
>>
>> If there are actually two versions, one "official", which typically means
>> that some publisher's doi is available, and another more freely available
>> on some author's web page for example, it is reasonable to keep both.
>> This is either done by creating two link lines :
>>
>>   A. Uthor, <a href="http://dx.doi.org/hubblemumble">Some stuffy things</a>
>> J. of Profanity 20 (1999) p 99
>>   A. Uthor, <a href="http://www.author.org</a> [preprint]
>>
>> or putting both on the same line (that will work with our current parser)
>> in the following style:
>>
>>   A. Uthor, <a href="http://dx.doi.org/hubblemumble">Some stuffy things</a>
>> J. of Everything 0 (1999) p 99-999, <a href="http://www.autch.org">some
>> stuffy thingies</a> [author preprint]
>>
>> Of course, even the articles that are accessible by subscription only should
>> be transferred to the link section. Again, note that this is a professional
>> database, and it saves time to many of us if we need only a few seconds to
>> reach out to the article contents.
>>
>> Even if you have only access to the abstract, or to the MR reference
>> of the http://www.ams.org/mathscinet : linking is better than referencing,
>> no doubt.
>>
>> Richard Mathar
>>
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