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
WWW Editor
University of Cambridge
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