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This morning, I heard Jonathan Zittrain on NPR Weekend Edition, talking about link rot -- the phenomenon where a given URL (uniform resource locator) -- no longer serves a page at all, cutting off access to the material or version of that material that used to be there. Heres the law review article he co-authored with Lawrence Lessig and Kendra Albert that lays out of the scope of the problem and proposes a solution. harvardlawreview.org/2014/03/perma-scoping-and-addressing-the-problem-of-link-and-reference-rot-in-legal-citations/ Iin the process of searching for linkrot online, I learned about the Harvard Law Library Innovation Labs efforts to build a permalink repository for libraries and scholars: fastcompany/3028321/whos-next/death-to-link-rot-heres-where-the-internet-goes-to-live-forever The effort is called Perma.cc and its been adopted by many of the top law libraries in the USA: perma.cc Heres the simple mission statement: perma.cc helps authors and journals create permanent archived citations in their published work. Cool, and clearly needed to combat reference rot, Looks a lot like 21st century information infrastructure to me: built by libraries, maintained by libraries, for the public and in the public interest.
Posted on: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 14:03:26 +0000

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