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Friday, May 20, 2011
Law - "Legal materials often disappear as Web site content is rearranged or deleted over time"
Unsettling but true, that linked footnote in an opinion often leads to nothing but frustration after a few years.
Sarah Rhodes has published this article on LLRX.com, titled "'Link Rot' and Legal Resources on the Web: A 2011 Analysis by the Chesapeake Digital Preservation Group." An intro:
Sarah Rhodes describes and documents the work of the Chesapeake Digital Preservation Group's fourth annual investigation of link rot among the original URLs for online law and policy-related materials archived though the group's efforts. "Link rot" is used to describe a URL that no longer provides direct access to files matching the content originally harvested from the URL. The Chesapeake Group focuses primarily on the preservation of Web-published legal materials, which often disappear as Web site content is rearranged or deleted over time. In the four years since the program began, the Chesapeake Group has built a digital archive collection comprising more than 7,400 digital items and 3,200 titles, all of which were originally posted to the Web.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on May 20, 2011 09:29 AM
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