Post #1213167

2025-06-22 06:16 UTC

Dear Hive Mind. Looking for good examples from ~2015 of scholarly or scholarly adjacent services/infrastructures failing. I&#39;ve got examples of corporate capture, but struggling to find examples of actual closure because they&#39;ve left very little trace Friendfeed is one example, alongside a million other social media offerings, but I&#39;m looking for something that the general scholarly reader would recognise and remember ideally

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@biocs@fediscience.org 2025-06-22 06:50

@cameronneylon does CiteULike count? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CiteULike looks like it closed in 2019, but I can't remember when I stopped using it. I'm not sure if the general scholarly reader will remember this, though. Even FriendFeed was a short bubble compared to Science Twitter I even found a blog post by you 😅 https://cameronneylon.net/blog/why-the-web-of-data-needs-to-be-social/

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@wragge@hcommons.social 2025-06-22 06:54

@cameronneylon There's probably a few GLAM things. Australia Museums Online (AMOL) / Collections Australian Network closed in 2014. https://mgnsw.org.au/articles/can-close/

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@hvdsomp@w3c.social 2025-06-22 07:01

@cameronneylon didn’t the failure by CNRI to renew the magical DOI.org domain happen around that time?

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@egonw@mastodon.social 2025-06-22 07:10

@cameronneylon there is Open PHACTS which certainly got attention, but not sure what the peak use was, and likely not that well known outside the life sciences

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@Lambo@openbiblio.social 2025-06-22 07:51

@cameronneylon In 2015, Elsevier failed expectations of the "Lingua" journal editorial board, resulting in a remarkable case of journal flipping: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2015/12/03/seizing-the-moment-is-our-understanding-of-open-access-too-shortsighted/

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@philbarker@mastodon.scot 2025-06-22 08:26

@cameronneylon in UK, the Jorum learning object repository https://www.alt.ac.uk/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=217 https://infolit.org.uk/the-retirement-of-jorum-the-national-learning-object-repository/

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@acka47@openbiblio.social 2025-06-22 11:40

@cameronneylon In 2015, #OCLC disabled logins into purl.org for everyone: https://groups.google.com/g/persistenturls/c/Zpd4BHQxxIM/m/7MBio5FsAgAJ Also in 2015, OCLC shut down dewey.info, the Linked Data version of the Dewey Decimal Classification.

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