[Open-Legislation] Link rot in legal judgements

Tue Oct 1 13:47:05 UTC 2013

Dear list,

FYI, a study, and two reports about it, on link- and reference-rot, 
especially in relation to Supreme Court (US) decisions, and a suggested 
remedy:

Perma: Scoping and Addressing the Problem of Link and Reference Rot in 
Legal Citations
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2329161

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/24/us/politics/in-supreme-court-opinions-clicks-that-lead-nowhere.html
http://inkdroid.org/journal/2013/09/26/on-perma-cc/

The proposed remedy is
http://perma.cc/
It's terms of service are critically examined at:
http://blog.ldodds.com/2013/09/25/its-more-than-the-link/

Hope this is of interest,

John

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