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the internet remains an incredibly fragile space. Experts estimate the average lifespan of a website is only 92 days, and a 2014 Harvard Law School study found that half of the URLs in U.S. Supreme Court cases, which function as online footnotes, don’t link to the originally cited information. These findings represent two widespread internet phenomena known as “link rot,” when a broken URL yields a blank error page, and “content drift,” when a link directs to new content that has overwritten the old, leaving no trace of what once was. http://bit.ly/2ltdJTJ http://bit.ly/2ltdJTJ+ -- Peterk Dallas, Tx [log in to unmask] Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org “If only there were a massive entity that I were forced to fund to tell me how I should live my life, since I’m so obviously incapable of deciding for myself.” M. Hashimoto To view the list archives go to: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=RECORDS-MANAGEMENT-UK To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the words UNSUBSCRIBE RECORDS-MANAGEMENT-UK For any technical queries re JISC please email [log in to unmask] For any content based queries, please email [log in to unmask]