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I actually implemented a rule for my website: anytime I write anything and cite a link, I always also include the internet archive url as well just in case. If it's not been archived yet I submit it to be.

as an example:

"You don't have to trust me on this one, here's an article with [a bunch of data] | [*Archive link in case of link rot]"

from: https://kolemcrae.com/notebook/virtue.html

It's not perfect, but it helps reduce some of the issue.

Other than that solutions are incredibly hard to come by - you need institutions to preserve urls - through tech changes and the like, when they have very little incentive to do so. Eg. making sure they implement a redirect from the http to https sounds simple enough, but not everyone did it. Also if they switch CMSs and the like.



> a rule for my website

Note that you should also have a rule to save the link content locally, to avoid single-point-of-failure problems in the unlikely-but-catastrophic case that archive.org itself goes down. (Cf the attempts to attack them over their National Emergency Library programme last year.)




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