Perma: Scoping and Addressing the Problem of Link and Reference Rot in Legal Citations
Perma: Scoping and Addressing the Problem of Link and Reference Rot in Legal Citations
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Perma：界定并解决法律引文中的链接和引用腐烂问题
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发表时间：
2014
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0.4
通讯作者：
Lawrence Lessig
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作者：
Jonathan Zittrain;Kendra Albert;Lawrence Lessig
摘要越来越多的读者跟随法院意见或法律评论文章中引用的URL，只会遇到错误消息，因为资源已从其原始在线地址移动。这种形式的参考腐烂，通常被称为“链接腐烂”，已经出现了在线材料的短暂性和法律的引用的永久性之间的脱节，只会变得更加普遍的学术材料移动到网上。本文由Jonathan Zittrain、Kendra Albert和Lawrence Lessig撰写，探讨了linkrot在学术和法律的引用中的普遍性，发现哈佛法律评论和其他期刊中超过70%的URL，以及美国最高法院意见中50%的URL，没有链接到最初引用的信息。根据这些结果，提出了一个解决方案，为作者和编辑的新的奖学金，涉及图书馆进行分布式，长期保存的链接内容。
Abstract It has become increasingly common for a reader to follow a URL cited in a court opinion or a law review article, only to be met with an error message because the resource has been moved from its original online address. This form of reference rot, commonly referred to as ‘linkrot’, has arisen from the disconnect between the transience of online materials and the permanence of legal citation, and will only become more prevalent as scholarly materials move online. The present paper*, written by Jonathan Zittrain, Kendra Albert and Lawrence Lessig, explores the pervasiveness of linkrot in academic and legal citations, finding that more than 70% of the URLs within the Harvard Law Review and other journals, and 50% of the URLs within United States Supreme Court opinions, do not link to the originally cited information. In light of these results, a solution is proposed for authors and editors of new scholarship that involves libraries undertaking the distributed, long-term preservation of link contents.