Bug Pictures Beyond The Internet hash://md5/e40462718a83846e6245fe1783175d0a
Creators: name: Poelen, Jorrit H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: ---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...

![Bug](img/BMT121_BMT0009388_stacked_01.jpg)

## There's A Bug in Zenodo...

![Bug Landing Page](img/BMT121_BMT0009388_landing_page.png)

## So How'd You Cite This Bug?

> Museum für Naturkunde. (2024). Photo of Specimen BMT0009388. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13342373

![Bug Landing Page](img/BMT121_BMT0009388_citation.png)

## 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

![DOI Redirection Sequence Diagram](img/doi-redirection.png)

## 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```

![Bug](img/BMT121_BMT0009388_stacked_01.jpg)

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## 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*?

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## Extra

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## 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)]

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## 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)]

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## 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)]

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## 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.

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description: Presented as part of the Arcadia sprint 5, Aug 19-21, 2024. in Disentis, Switzerland. See also https://github.com/plazi/arcadia-project and https://github.com/plazi/arcadia-project/blob/5b02837374cb1ed22c684ac573d5a843aef0540d/sprint%205%20August%2018-23%2C%202024.md .