Another approach we'd though about is to provide a standard area for
annotations at the bottom of articles and to flag changes to the original
source or to draw attention to problems if we chose not to make changes.
You might also think about use of CSS to apply a watermark on documents.
So if when documents are created they have a link to a CSS file called,
say, vol1.css (initially blank) you could add a watermark to the single
file saying (Back copy published in xxxx. Links may no longer work. This
approach would require very little effort and will at least dra people's
attention to the fact that the document is old (which they won't have if
they go directly to the page from a search engine or link).
BTW we are doing some work on mothballing project web sites which will
provide recommendations on what you should do to a project Web site once
the funding is finished. I'll post details to list list once the work is
available.
Brian
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On Thu, 15 May 2003, Nicola Rogers wrote:
> On Thu, 15 May 2003, Pam Davies wrote:
>
> > What approach do you take to links in archived documents - past issues of a
> > newsletter, etc? Material which is being kept available, but not currently
> > maintained. Or *is* it currently maintained?
>
> We have a publication called Reporter:
>
> http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/
>
> It's been published for a few hundred years and has gone online for about
> four years now. When the decision was taken to put it online, it was
> decided that web and email addresses in the document would not be linked
> for the reasons you describe below and because the paper edition is seen
> as definitive, so we wouldn't be permitted to update text.
>
> The only links in the online Reporter are references to other editions of
> the document.
>
> I'm not sure this is the most user-friendly solution, but it does save the
> problem of cleaning up broken links. A CMS might offer the possibility of
> delinking references after a given period of time?
>
> Nicola
>
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> WWW Editor
> University of Cambridge
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