Round up!
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Websites change, go away, and are taken down. In general, we understand that the Web is ephemeral and we’re okay with encountering the occasional 404. We can tell ourselves, “Hey, don’t worry about it. There are at least 542 million other cat pictures out there. I’ll find another one.” Sometimes though, you are linking to something important and it’s a huge bummer to lose the content at the other end of the link. Like when you’re reading a Supreme Court opinion and every other link you click on is dead.
The problem of missing linked content, or reference rot, is solvable though and we’ve taken a stab at it. Our solution is Perma.cc.
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This March, Sidsel Bech-Petersen a Library Transformer at Aarhus Public Libraries and I have proposed a session at South By Southwest Interactive. It’s called Library Machines, and essentially, it’s a discussion/workshop to explore new ideas and directions for libraries. It will be the spiritual sibling of last year’s Libraries: the Ultimate Playground.
Read more of "Library Machines & SXSW: Gettin' out the Vote!"Link roundup July 18, 2013
Very good stuff!
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