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Published on: February 20, 2015

What’s Past May Be Gone, Not Prologue, But for the Internet Archive

By Laura Orr

“As Google abandons its past, Internet archivists step in to save our collective memory…“:

“Never trust a corporation to do a library’s job.”

Published on: August 26, 2014

Lifespan of CDs (NPR): How long do CDs last?

By Laura Orr

Surprise!: It depends…, but please do not make any assumptions that your kids will be able to view those documents or photos on your CDs (or DVDs) or other digital storage device.

From report [link to infoDocket post]: ‘But “there is no average, because there is no average disc.’

Hat tip to infoDocket.

Published on: August 12, 2014

Link Rot (404/File Not Found) Symposium: October 24, 2014

By Laura Orr

Symposium: 404/File Not Found: Link Rot, Legal Citation and Projects to Preserve Precedent:

“The Web is fluid and mutable, and this is a “feature” rather than a “bug”. But it also creates challenges in the legal environment (and elsewhere) when fixed content is necessary for legal writers to support their conclusions. Judges, attorneys, academics, and others using citations need systems and practices to preserve web content as it exists in a particular moment in time, and make it reliably available.

On October 24, 2014 Georgetown University Law Library in Washington, D.C. will host a symposium that explores the problem of link and reference rot.” [Link to symposium website.]