ACIDprintsiibid

ACIDprintsiibid is a hypothetical notation system proposed for scholarly citations in digital documents. The term blends elements of traditional print citations, the ibid reference practice, and digital provenance techniques to support persistent and machine-actionable cross-references. It is not an established standard and has been discussed mainly in theoretical or exploratory contexts within information science and digital humanities.

The core idea of ACIDprintsiibid is to encode each cited source with a stable fingerprint and to manage cross-references in a way that remains reliable even when sources move, are reorganized, or change locations. The system envisions two interlocking components: an ACIDprint layer that generates a stable, machine-readable identifier from the source’s metadata (such as DOI, author, publication date, and repository identifiers) and a siibid layer that records the position and context of a citation relative to previous mentions, enabling an inline “see also ibid” mechanism that resolves to the most recent occurrence of the same source.

In practice, ACIDprintsiibid would rely on persistent identifiers, resolvable links, and metadata schemas compatible with existing citation styles. It is intended to facilitate automatic citation linking, provenance tracking, and robust archiving for digital scholarship. Adoption would require tooling support in editors, citation managers, and publishing platforms, as well as community agreement on encoding schemes and resolution rules.

As a theoretical construct, ACIDprintsiibid serves as a reference point for discussions about durable citations and contextual cross-linking in evolving digital texts. See also Ibid, DOI, and persistent identifiers.