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A short dissection of URL shortening services and some thoughts about how to save metadata about them in your documentary heriage.

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Shortened links? Expand them and save the URLs
Looking at the metadata you need to extract in your processed when working with hyperlinks from URL shorteners.
exponentialdecay.co.uk
July 6, 2026 at 7:40 AM
The Internet is an API. It's not a passive medium, it's very much active. Be active in your maintenance of the internet.

- Pay for your domains! (orgs!)
- Design your URLS.
- Make HTTP redirects to new versions of content.

#digipres #WebArchiving #HTTPreserve #PersonalDigitalArchiving #RobustLinks
September 15, 2025 at 12:27 PM
- Actively manage content creation and tear-down.
- Create "Robust Links".
- Migrate dynamic code to static pages when sun-setting.
- Keep your own archival backups (perma.cc / archive.org).
- Learn how to find alternative links.

#digipres #WebArchiving #HTTPreserve #PersonalDigitalArchiving
Websites change. Perma Links don't.
Perma.cc helps scholars, journals, courts, and others create permanent records of the web sources they cite.
perma.cc
September 15, 2025 at 12:27 PM