[Air-L] Citing inactive websites

[Sue Thomas]

It's also useful to note that whilst some urls stay live for a long time, shortened links like bit.ly will disappear if the company goes out of business. So it's always more sustainable to use the long urls.

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Sent: 25 August 2011 06:22
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Subject: Re: [Air-L] Citing inactive websites

I am curious what you would then do with the archive. For example I have an archive of (now-removed) forum posts from a virtual environment I conducted some research in. If I wanted to cite those, and came across an editor in the same frame of mind as Debbie, would the archive help? -What would be the ethics of making something re-available (on a supporting web page or similar) that the original poster, or forum moderators, decided they did not want public? 

Darryl Woodford
PhD Candidate | Sessional Academic,
Creative Industries Faculty
Queensland University of Technology

On 25 Aug 2011, at 12:24, William Huber wrote:

> An imperfect solution is to use GMU's Zotero to manage your bibliography,
> and to create a snapshot for each web page you cite. Then, at least you'll
> always have an archive of the page as you saw it, even if it becomes
> unavailable later.
> 
> William Huber
> Researcher, Software Studies Initiative @ Calit2
> Doctoral candidate, Ph.D. Program in Art & Media History
> Visual Arts Department, University of California, San Diego
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 7:18 PM, Alejandro Tortolini <alemtor at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
>> Hi Debbie, do you have the date you visited each site? I ask it because as
>> far as I know it´s a common practice to cite this way: "www.blablabla.edu.
>> Visited xx/xx/xxxx"
>> by the way, I think the lost of sites is a very interesting issue.
>> Best,
>> 
>> Alejandro Tortolini
>> Scitech journalist - Teacher
>> Buenos Aires, Argentina
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