2014-10-27: 404/File Not Found: Link Rot, Legal Citation and Projects to Preserve Precedent

Herbert and I attended the " 404/File Not Found: Link Rot, Legal Citation and Projects to Preserve Precedent " at the Georgetown Law Library on Friday, October 24, 2014. Although the origins for this workshop are many, catalysts for it probably include the recent Liebler & Liebert study about link rot in Supreme Court opinions , and the paper by Zittrain, Albert, and Lessig about Perma.cc and the problem of link rot in the scholarly and legal record and the resulting popular media coverage resulting from it (e.g., NPR and the NYT ). The speakers were naturally drawn from the legal community at large, but some notable exceptions included David Walls from the GPO , Jefferson Bailey from the Internet Archive, and Herbert Van de Sompel from LANL. The event was streamed and recorded, and videos + slides will be available from the Georgetown site soon so I will only hit the highlights below. After a welcome from Michelle Wu, the director of the Georgetown Law L