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dresden:vol-1:ghosts

Stable identifier

A permanent key for citing this work

The format is dresden:vol-N:slug — for example dresden:vol-1:about-farming-in-illinois. URLs change. Hosts migrate. Forks happen. The identifier is the one piece of metadata that survives all of those.

Where it lives

  • The JSON-LD on every work page.
  • The OAI-PMH 2.0 record at /api/oai-pmh/get-record/<slug>.xml.
  • The BibTeX and RIS exports under /works/<slug>/downloads/.

How to use it

  • In a footnote. Write the URL for ease and the identifier for permanence: … (Dresden Edition, Vol. 1, 1900). Stable identifier: dresden:vol-1:about-farming-in-illinois.
  • In BibTeX. The identifier is already in the note field of the per-work .bib export.
  • In a database. Use it as the primary key when you store references to works on this archive — it's deterministic; URLs are not.
  • In a fork or mirror. The identifier still points at the same work, so a clone of the corpus rehosted at a different URL still resolves.

Click the value to copy it. Slugs are never repurposed; a citation written today will still resolve in fifty years.

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