R: [Air-l] on the web, research work proves ephemeral

[ren at aldermangroup.com]

>can't remember the name of the service I used...could it be 
Alexa.com? Anyone uses/recalls such a service?

I think this is the one you are after:

www.archive.org

ren
www.renreynolds.com


---- Original message ----
>Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 10:49:26 +0100
>From: "Luca Meyer" <lucameyer at tiscali.it>  
>Subject: R: [Air-l] on the web, research work proves 
ephemeral  
>To: <air-l at aoir.org>
>
>Interesting. Is there anyway to refer to some 
permanent "copy" of the
>web? I recall once I run into a copy of a web site I have 
run from 1996
>to 1998 and that has been gone for several years now...I 
can't remember
>the name of the service I used...could it be Alexa.com? 
Anyone
>uses/recalls such a service?
>
>Luca
>
>Mr. Luca Meyer
>consumer research advisor
>http://www.lucameyer.com/en/ 
>
>> -----Messaggio originale-----
>> Da: air-l-admin at aoir.org [mailto:air-l-admin at aoir.org] Per 
>> conto di Lokman Tsui
>> Inviato: mercoledì 26 novembre 2003 9.56
>> A: air-l at aoir.org
>> Oggetto: [Air-l] on the web, research work proves ephemeral
>> 
>> 
>> http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A8730-2003Nov23?
langu
>> age=printer
>> 
>> By Rick Weiss
>> Washington Post Staff Writer
>> Monday, November 24, 2003; Page A08
>> 
>> On the Web, Research Work Proves Ephemeral
>> Electronic Archivists Are Playing Catch-Up in Trying to 
Keep 
>> Documents 
>> From Landing in History's Dustbin
>> 
>> It was in the mundane course of getting a scientific paper 
>> published that 
>> physician Robert Dellavalle came to the unsettling 
>> realization that the 
>> world was dissolving before his eyes.
>> 
>> The world, that is, of footnotes, references and Web pages.
>> 
>> Dellavalle, a dermatologist with the Veterans Affairs 
Medical 
>> Center in 
>> Denver, had co-written a research report featuring dozens 
of 
>> footnotes -- 
>> many of which referred not to books or journal articles 
but, as is 
>> increasingly the case these days, to Web sites that he and 
>> his colleagues 
>> had used to substantiate their findings.
>> 
>> Problem was, it took about two years for the article to 
wind 
>> its way to 
>> publication. And by that time, many of the sites they had 
>> cited had moved 
>> to other locations on the Internet or disappeared 
altogether, 
>> rendering 
>> useless all those Web addresses -- also known as uniform 
>> resource locators 
>> (URLs) -- they had provided in their footnotes.
>> 
>> "Every time we checked, some were gone and others had 
moved," said 
>> Dellavalle, who is on the faculty at the University of 
>> Colorado Health 
>> Sciences Center. "We thought, 'This is an interesting 
>> phenomenon itself. 
>> We should look at this.' " [.. see link above for rest of 
article .. ]
>> 
>> 
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