CiVers

📢 Hello Mastodon! 👋
We’re CiVers Citation of Versioned Web Pages by Persistent Identifier

Web pages change. Links rot. Academic references break. We’re fixing that. 🛠️

💻 CiVers develops software and methodologies to make web content reliably citable with PIDs and versioning

🔗 DFG-funded @dfg_public@wisskomm.social project at the DAI Berlin @dai_weltweit@social.bund.de with Heidelberg University Library @uniheidelberg@xn--baw-joa.social, GBV @vzg_gbv@openbiblio.social and DataCite @datacite@openbiblio.social

#WebArchiving #OpenScience #DigitalHumanities #PID #DataCite #CiVers

We presented #CiVers at #CAA2026 in Vienna (Mar 31–Apr 4) with a poster! 🎉
🔍 By combining #WebArchiving change detection, and #metadata extraction, CiVers enables reliable citation of versioned web pages using persistent identifiers (PIDs).
🥅 Our goal: make web-based #research resources citable, traceable, and reproducible.
Let’s connect! 🤲

Photo Credits: Lisa Steinmann.

We wish everyone a great start to the new year! 🎉 To kick things off, we’re excited to share the results and materials from the first CiVers Workshop held on 14 October at the @dai_weltweit@social.bund.de Deutsches Archäologisches Institut in Berlin; a wonderful way to begin 2026 for us! 🌟
Explore the program, presentations, and outcomes here: https://doi.org/10.34780/4qjy3nf4 🧠📚

#archaeology #digitalHumanities #openscience #research #opensource

Last week we explored the essentials of citability: versioning, PIDs, and #metadata But how can these be applied to existing web resources so researchers can cite them? 🤔

🛠️ Many resources in #archaeology and #DigitalHumanities weren’t built for this. Redesigning them would be costly and time-consuming.

💡 #CiVers is developing tools to create versioned snapshots and assign PIDs, without altering existing infrastructures.

Read more in our #openaccess article:
🔗 https://doi.org/10.34780/6k764r03

🔍 Let’s dig deeper into what makes a web #Research resource citable. For #CiVers, the essentials are:

⌛ Versioning: capture a resource at a specific point in time
🔗 Persistent Identifiers (PIDs): provide a stable, unique reference
📝 Rich #metadata : describe content so humans and machines can find it again

These principles are at the heart of our first #openaccess article: read it here!
🔗 https://doi.org/10.34780/6k764r03

#DigitalHumanities #Archaeology #OpenScience

🤔 Curious about how CiVers will work?

📹 We’ve shared a new (German-language!) video that walks you through the core idea behind CiVers and shows the very first steps of our software development.

If you want to understand what we’re building, and why versioning and PIDs matter, this is a great place to start!

👉 Watch the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jje8Kb8xJL0

#DigitalHumanities #academia #OpenScience #WebArchiving

📣 New blog post! 📝

October 14, we hosted our first #CiVers workshop at the @dai_weltweit@social.bund.de in Berlin 🏛️ This was a great opportunity to exchange ideas on citing versioned web resources and managing research data in #archaeology and the #humanities

Read more about what we discussed 👇
🔗 https://www.dainst.org/blogs/noslug/253

#Metadata #Research #OpenScience #DigitalPreservation #WebArchiving #DigitalHumanities

🪧 On Tuesday, October 14, the CiVers team will host its first workshop at the @dai_weltweit@social.bund.de in Berlin.

We’ll bring together project partners and experts from digital humanities 💻 and research infrastructure 🔧 to discuss research data repositories and approaches for citing web resources.📄

Looking forward to the exchange!
#CiVers #DigitalHumanities #OpenScience #Research #opensource

The poster “The CiVers-Project: Bridging research texts and fine-grained research data”, presented at #CAA2026 in Vienna, is now available #openaccess.

👉 Check it out here: https://doi.org/10.34780/cifa5ycy

#CiVers #DigitalHumanities
#ResearchData #OpenScience #opensource #research #digitalpreservation #webarchiving

We met in Heidelberg last week with our partners at @Propylaeum@mastodon.social to explore how to make propylaeum.vitae “civersable.” 🤝

Great discussions on implementing versioning & citation features in WISS-KI systems, virtual research environments and linked open data management software based on Drupal. 💭 💻

Propylaeum.vitae shares linked open data on scholarly biographies from a dynamically updated triple store. CiVers will help preserve these dynamic views as citable versions. ✨

Did you know that web pages can be captured in different formats for archiving?

📦 WARC / WACZ Archives — Standard formats for full web archive collections
🌐 HTML Snapshots — Complete DOM capture at the moment of archiving
🔗 SingleFile HTML — Self-contained HTML with embedded resources
🗂️ MHTML (MHT) — Browser-supported single-file archive with HTML and assets

#CiVers is planned to support these formats, particularly those suitable for long-term #digitalpreservation #webarchiving #archives