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| − | |description=Link rot (also called link death, link breaking, or reference rot) is the phenomenon of hyperlinks tending over time to cease to point to their originally targeted file, web page, or server due to that resource being relocated to a new address or becoming permanently unavailable. A link that no longer points to its target, often called a broken, dead, or orphaned link, is a specific form of dangling pointer. | + | |description=Link rot (also called link death, link decay, link breaking, or reference rot) is the phenomenon of hyperlinks tending over time to cease to point to their originally targeted file, web page, or server due to that resource being relocated to a new address or becoming permanently unavailable. A link that no longer points to its target, often called a broken, dead, or orphaned link, is a specific form of dangling pointer. |
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| description | Link rot (also called link death, link decay, link breaking, or reference rot) is the phenomenon of hyperlinks tending over time to cease to point to their originally targeted file, web page, or server due to that resource being relocated to a new address or becoming permanently unavailable. A link that no longer points to its target, often called a broken, dead, or orphaned link, is a specific form of dangling pointer. |
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Librarians and Link Rot: A Comparative Analysis with Some Methodological Considerations
A cross disciplinary study of link decay and the effectiveness of mitigation techniques
URLs Link Rot: Implications for Electronic Publishing
Perma: Scoping and Addressing the Problem of Link and Reference Rot in Legal Citations
No More 404s
References
- ^ David C Tyler;Beth McNeil. (2003) "Librarians and Link Rot: A Comparative Analysis with Some Methodological Considerations" - 615-632 pages. doi: 10.1353/pla.2003.0098
- ^ Jason Hennessey;Steven Xijin Ge. (2013) "A cross disciplinary study of link decay and the effectiveness of mitigation techniques" . doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-14-s14-s5
- ^ D Vinay Kumar;B T Sampath Kumar;D R Parameshwarappa. (2015) "URLs Link Rot: Implications for Electronic Publishing" . doi: 10.18329/09757597/2015/8105
- ^ Jonathan Zittrain;Kendra Albert;Lawrence Lessig. (2014) "Perma: Scoping and Addressing the Problem of Link and Reference Rot in Legal Citations" - 88-99 pages. doi: 10.1017/s1472669614000255
- ^ Ke Zhou;Claire Grover;Martin Klein;Richard Tobin. (2015) "No More 404s" . doi: 10.1145/2756406.2756940at: JCDL 2015