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 Law Library will host a symposium that explores the problem of link and reference rot.

 

There are a limited number of seat still available both for the in-person event as well as the webcast. On the registration form you will have the opportunity to indicate by which mode you would like to participate. A light breakfast and box lunch will be served.

 

Event website: http://www.law.georgetown.edu/library/404/

 

Registration form: http://www.law.georgetown.edu/library/404/rsvp.cfm

 

If you have questions, please feel free to contact Leah Prescott at [log in to unmask]

 

We hope you can join us!

 

 

Carolyn Cox | Digital Collections Librarian
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