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August 6, 2011 by Gary Price

Web Preservation, URLs: "Analyzing the Persistence of Referenced Web Resources with Memento"

August 6, 2011 by Gary Price

Authors: Robert Sanderson; Mark Edward Phillips;  and Herbert Van de Sompel

From an Abstract:

In this paper, the authors present the results of a study into the persistence and availability of web resources referenced from papers in scholarly repositories. Two repositories with different characteristics, arXiv and the UNT digital library, are studied to determine if the nature of the repository, or of its content. Memento makes it possible to automate discovery of archived resources and to consider the time between the publication of the research and the archiving of the reference URLs. This automation allows us to process more than 160000 URLs, the largest known such study, and the repository metadata allows consideration of the results by discipline. The results are startling: 45% (66096) of the URLs referenced from arXiv still exist, but are not preserved for future generations, and 28% of resources referenced by UNT papers have been lost. Moving forwards, we provide some initial recommendations, including that repositories should publish URL lists extracted from papers that could be used as seeds for web archiving systems.

Source: University of North Texas Digital Library

See Also: Learn More About Memento, Download Momento Tools

Filed under: Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Open Access, Preservation

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About Gary Price

Gary Price (gprice@mediasourceinc.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. Before launching INFOdocket, Price and Shirl Kennedy were the founders and senior editors at ResourceShelf and DocuTicker for 10 years. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com, and is currently a contributing editor at Search Engine Land.

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