Computers : Internet : Web Design and Development : Linkrot

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• Computers: Software: Internet: Site Management: Link Management  (28)

• Cool URIs Don't Change - An appeal for stability, and advice how to achieve it, by Tim Berners-Lee.
• Link Rot - Overview article from Wikipedia.

• The Availability and Persistence of Web References in D-Lib Magazine - A study by Frank McCown et al., presented at the 5th International Web Archiving Workshop. [PDF] (September 22, 2005)
• Linkrot and Legal Research - An overview on results of recent research by Ted Tjaden. (August 3, 2005)
• A Longitudinal Study of Web Pages Continued: A Consideration of Document Persistence - 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. (January 1, 2004)
• All Things Web: How Much Is Too Much? - Results of the third State of the Web Survey (SOWS), an automated web survey that tracks page size and linkrot on the WWW. (May 31, 1999)
• Altertbox: 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. (June 14, 1998)

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