About the same as I pushed the send button on that article, @cwebber was finishing https://octodon.social/@cwebber/102535750059287652
I do believe that datashards would be a superior alternative to lists of ad hoc identifiers for most uses. Datashards assumes contemporary computing resources and applies to the creation of new archives. My blog addresses managing content collections in situ and discussion of data recovery by future archivists is an anticipation of successful adoption of ideas like datashards