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Linkrot

The web is continuously changing: websites may disappear, they may be replaced by redirects to other sites or they change content. Links pointing to changed or disappeared websites break, or become incorrect because the content they were supposed to point to got lost. This phenomenon is called linkrot.

Resources in This Category

• A Longitudinal Study of Web Pages Continued: A Consideration of Document Persistence

  http://www.informationr.net/ir/9-2/paper174.html
  Wallace Koehler, Valdosta State University, presents the results of his research, and an overview on existing literature. Published in Information Research, Vol. 9 No. 2, January 2004.

• Altertbox: Fighting Linkrot

  http://www.nngroup.com/articles/fighting-linkrot/
  Jakob Nielsen defines the phaenomenon linkrot, and encourages site owners to fight it by reducing outbound linkrot and securing stability of incoming links.

• Cool URIs Don't Change

  http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI
  An appeal for stability, and advice how to achieve it, by Tim Berners-Lee.

• Link Rot

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_rot
  Overview article from Wikipedia.

• Linkrot and Legal Research

  http://www.slaw.ca/2005/08/03/linkrot-and-legal-research/
  An overview on results of recent research by Ted Tjaden.

• The Availability and Persistence of Web References in D-Lib Magazine

  http://iwaw.europarchive.org/05/papers/iwaw05-mccown1.pdf
  A study by Frank McCown et al., presented at the 5th International Web Archiving Workshop.

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