Can Common Crawl reliably track persistent identifier (PID) use over time?
Digital Libraries
2018-02-06 v1 Networking and Internet Architecture
Abstract
We report here on the results of two studies using two and four monthly web crawls respectively from the Common Crawl (CC) initiative between 2014 and 2017, whose initial goal was to provide empirical evidence for the changing patterns of use of so-called persistent identifiers. This paper focusses on the tooling needed for dealing with CC data, and the problems we found with it. The first study is based on over URIs from over pages crawled in April 2014 and April 2017, the second study adds a further pages from the April 2015 and April 2016 crawls. We conclude with suggestions on specific actions needed to enable studies based on CC to give reliable longitudinal information.
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@article{arxiv.1802.01424,
title = {Can Common Crawl reliably track persistent identifier (PID) use over time?},
author = {Henry S. Thompson and Jian Tong},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.01424},
year = {2018}
}
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7 pages, 1 figure, submitted to TempWeb2018