Bug Pictures Beyond The Internet hash://md5/e40462718a83846e6245fe1783175d0a

---author: Jorrit Poelen https://jhpoelen.nltitle: Bug Pictures Beyond The Internetdate: 2024-08-19--- ## Guiding Questions * How do *you* cite data? * How do you look up cited data *now*? * How do you look up cited data *40 years from now*? ## There's A Bug In Zenodo...  ## There's A Bug in Zenodo...  ## So How'd You Cite This Bug? > Museum für Naturkunde. (2024). Photo of Specimen BMT0009388. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13342373  ## How To Retrieve This Zenodo Bug Now? Like this? ```curl -L "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13342373"\ > bug.tiff ``` ## How To Retrieve This Bug Now? Wait a minute ... ```cat bug.tiff | cut -z -b1-62``` ```{ .html }<!doctype html><html lang="en_US"><head><meta charset="UTF-8">``` That ain't no bug, it is an HTML page. ## How To Retrieve This Bug Picture Now? Take 2. * turn on the internet (still there?) * open a web browser * load https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13342373 * and rely on a delicate and complex socio-technical network * inspect page * use mouse to click on a link that looks like a bug picture * download image and **trust** its authenticity ## DOI Economics and Redirection  ## How To Retrieve This Bug Picture 40 Years From Now? > Museum für Naturkunde. (2024). Photo of Specimen BMT0009388. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13342373 Likely will not work due to intricate network of dependencies. ## How To Retrieve This Bug Picture 40 Years From Now? ### Proposal: Sign the citation ^[Elliott M.J., Poelen, J.H. & Fortes, J.A.B. (2023) Signing data citations enables data verification and citation persistence. *Sci Data*. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02230-y [hash://sha256/f849c870565f608899f183ca261365dce9c9f1c5441b1c779e0db49df9c2a19d](https://linker.bio/hash://sha256/f849c870565f608899f183ca261365dce9c9f1c5441b1c779e0db49df9c2a19d)] ... by adding some digital fingerprints of the image. > Museum für Naturkunde. (2024). Photo of Specimen BMT0009388. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13342373 > **hash://md5/f052cbac398bf340a620c421bfefa16d** ## How To Retrieve This Bug Picture 40 Years From Now? ... by searching the world (in, and beyond, the internet) for the content with the unique fingerprint hash://md5/f052cbac398bf340a620c421bfefa16d . * https://linker.bio/hash://md5/f052cbac398bf340a620c421bfefa16d * https://zenodo.org/records/13342373/files/BMT121_BMT0009388_stacked_01.tiff * ```preston cat --remote https://zenodo.org hash://md5/f052cbac398bf340a620c421bfefa16d``` * ```preston cat --remote https://softwareheritage.org hash://sha256/69df9b5bc5df5619448ade01c92d0a5e20bcec2ab4c8b668d2db56f9e5cce6e7``` * ```preston cat --remote https://linker.bio,https://zenodo.org hash://md5/f052cbac398bf340a620c421bfefa16d``` ## Let Us Carry Our Bug Pictures Into The Future... ```preston cat\ --remote "https://zenodo.org"\ hash://md5/f052cbac398bf340a620c421bfefa16d\ > bug.tiff```  --- ## Guiding Questions * How do *you* cite data? * How do you look up cited data *now*? * How do you look up cited data *40 years from now*? --- ## Extra --- ## Internet Is Designed For *Exchanging* Information > The internet is a powerful tool for exchanging digital information. But the Internet’s contents changes constantly: websites are launched and taken down, webpages change, and content gets archived or lost.^[Jorrit Poelen. 2024. Unleashing Digital Knowledge Into The Future. Accessed on 2024-02-06 at https://linker.bio [line:hash://sha256/8ac18eb75ff20d40d1d60bb6ad5a745eb528093d1ffbe373e3847c13146091eb!/L12](https://linker.bio/line:hash://sha256/8ac18eb75ff20d40d1d60bb6ad5a745eb528093d1ffbe373e3847c13146091eb!/L12)] --- ## Internet Is *Location-based* > By design, a web address, or Uniform Resource Locator (URL), points to a specific internet location from which a resource, like a webpage, can be retrieved. However, a URL does not provide a way to verify that a retrieved webpage was the one we asked for. ^[Jorrit Poelen. 2024. Unleashing Digital Knowledge Into The Future. Accessed on 2024-02-06 at https://linker.bio [line:hash://sha256/8ac18eb75ff20d40d1d60bb6ad5a745eb528093d1ffbe373e3847c13146091eb!/L14](https://linker.bio/line:hash://sha256/8ac18eb75ff20d40d1d60bb6ad5a745eb528093d1ffbe373e3847c13146091eb!/L14)] --- ## Finding Content By Their Location Is ... Tricky > Imagine using a URL-like reference to find a book at a library: instead of locating a book by what it is (e.g., title, author), you refer to a book by its location (e.g., third shelf on the second row next to the window). With this, a book becomes unfindable if moved to another shelf. And, if you do manage to find a book at the referenced location, how would you know you’ve found the book you are looking for? ^[Jorrit Poelen. 2024. Unleashing Digital Knowledge Into The Future. Accessed on 2024-02-06 at https://linker.bio [line:hash://sha256/8ac18eb75ff20d40d1d60bb6ad5a745eb528093d1ffbe373e3847c13146091eb!/L16](https://linker.bio/line:hash://sha256/8ac18eb75ff20d40d1d60bb6ad5a745eb528093d1ffbe373e3847c13146091eb!/L16)] --- ## Finding Content By Their (Summarized) Content Is ... What Librarians Do > Instead of pointing to where books are located, librarians point to them using a bibliographic reference. For practical reasons, only a few identifying clues are included in such a reference (e.g., author, year of publication, title, and publisher). **So, librarians refer to content by what it is, and knowing where it may be located is secondary.** ^[Jorrit Poelen. 2024. Unleashing Digital Knowledge Into The Future. Accessed on 2024-02-06 at https://linker.bio [line:hash://sha256/8ac18eb75ff20d40d1d60bb6ad5a745eb528093d1ffbe373e3847c13146091eb!/L18](https://linker.bio/line:hash://sha256/8ac18eb75ff20d40d1d60bb6ad5a745eb528093d1ffbe373e3847c13146091eb!/L18)] A bibliographic citation: Darwin, C. 1859. On the Origin of Species. John Murray. ---