A good effort from this year’s @TheWebConf to produce open-access HTML versions of the accepted papers. Here’s ours titled as “Multi-Task Learning Improves Disease Models from Web Search” dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id… #TheWebConf #www2018
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Congrats to ACM and #TheWebConf for taking this significant step forward. Authors: *your* next step is to self-register and archive your work. Express your own semantics, identifiers, social and interactive possibilities to better communicate. Control yourself! #LinkedResearch
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Let's take a walk: doi.org/10.1145/3178876.3186… -> dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid… -> dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id… -> delivery.acm.org/10.1145/319… Ouch! Is this the intended identifier that users should share or is the user expected to remove the query parameter in order to not expose anything silly!
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You know we'll see those latter URLs in citations, right ;-) High time to use #signposting "cite-as" relation type datatracker.ietf.org/doc/dra… signposting.org/identifier/

RFC 8574: cite-as: A Link Relation to Convey a Preferred URI for Referencing

A web resource is routinely referenced by means of the URI with which it is directly accessed. But cases exist where referencing a resource by means of a different URI is preferred. This specificat...

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It is a complete disaster. If you now fetch the final URL: delivery.acm.org/10.1145/319… , you'll get HTTP 403: " Access Denied You don't have permission to access "delivery.acm.org/10.1145/319…?" on this server. Reference #18.27e033c1.1524657959.ba4c6c5 "
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Replying to @csarven @hvdsomp @lampos
That's a bummer but may be that's a temporary bug. ACM is still working on the system. It's new for them... I could not reproduce the problem with a random paper. May be try to access the same paper again from the website or the webapp, and you will get another working URL.

Apr 25, 2018 · 4:28 PM UTC

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Replying to @pchampin @hvdsomp @lampos
I can reproduce from a different IP using Firefox/Chromium. Can you start from: doi.org/10.1145/3178876.3186… . There are 4 URIs involved, and the last one (for the HTML) is the one with the IP/key/session.. information in the query.
Replying to @pchampin @hvdsomp @lampos
I'm sure they'll iron out some stuff but none of this comes as a surprise. Publishers tend to find ways to mangle URIs, track user behaviour, make machine-discovery difficult/impossible, apply arbitrary access restrictions even if stuff is "#OpenAccess" eg
Sarven Capadisli @csarven
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If any doubt about how horrible/useless for-profit 3rd-party publishers eg can't link to PDF b/c non-persistent URL: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/stor… is now 403; ~10m lifetime! Closest reference to the PDF is iframe onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… . That is faking #OpenAccess #OpenScience