Validating linked URLs

[marcoscaceres]

I wonder if we should have a periodic (e.g., one per week/month/year?) check of the references to see which are 404?

[tobie]

Yeah. What do we do with 404, though? Seems we'd need to think about what that implies first.

[marcoscaceres]

Yeah, lots of options... just thinking out loud here:

1. just make a "404s.txt" somewhere, but do nothing with the actual biblio data.
2. file bugs here and ping the contributor identified via git blame.
3. Copy the href value to a new prop name old_href or whatever, so tools no longer link.
4. For each 404, see if it's available still on Web Archive and use that instead.
5. Do nothing... it's the web... stuff breaks and that's ok.