Link Rot, Legal Citation and Projects to Preserve Precedent: Conference: Storify, links, and resources

Link Rot, Legal Citation and Projects to Preserve Precedent: 404/File Not Found, a conference, was held 24 October 2014 at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC, USA.

The conference Website and program are available at: http://www.law.georgetown.edu/library/404/

One Twitter hashtag for the event was: #linkrot

Click here for a storify of images and Twitter tweets from the event.

Here is a description of the event, from the event’s Website:

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 free symposium that explores the problem of link and reference rot.[...]

The event was Webcast, and video of the event may become available shortly.

HT @GtownLawLib