Season 2 · Episode 1925
The Plumbing That Keeps Science From Collapsing
Half of all links in academic papers are dead. Here’s the plumbing that keeps knowledge from vanishing.
My Weird Prompts · Daniel Rosehill
April 2, 202622m 41s
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Show Notes
Discover how the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) system prevents the internet's knowledge from crumbling into broken links. This episode explores why URLs fail, how DOIs act as permanent addresses for research, and why AI models and datasets now depend on them for reproducibility. Learn about the Handle System, the social contract of persistent identifiers, and how a global network of libraries keeps the scientific record alive.