URLs: Mean time of survival? -Reply

[Elisabeth Roche]

I was saying to Bill Thayer,  IMHO, the one really noticable area is in
magazine articles (seems about every 3 months they rotate out to
archives or somewhere?)

and the infamous Bookwire, where you go to the same URL but the content
is changed! Now the book is a totally different one than you are
hyperlinking to from a search result. That's a twist:)

Elisabeth Roche  eroche at sisna.com
serendipity RULES!


KAREN SCHNEIDER wrote:

> Equally wild conjecture, but if I were to start hypthesizin' before
> assessin', I'd guess that:
>
> * URLs with tildes change or expire significantly more frequently
> than URLs without tildes
>
> * .gov sites change least frequently of all (though having written
> that, it's because I *hope* that's the case)
>
> * top-level URLs are far more stable than any subdirectory
>
> * "real" servers are more stable than virtual servers
>
> But that overall Internet sites are increasingly stable, and that
> moved resources increasingly refer the seeker to the correct
> resource.
>
> People forget that other info resources are also mutable.  We buy
> books, we weed books, they are lost, they are stolen, we change
> where we put them.  The fact is, information is hard work.
>
> Karen "rolling up her sleeves as she writes" Schneider
> (and ain't that a trick, anyway!)
>
> Karen G. Schneider/schneider.karen at epamail.epa.gov
> Contractor, GCI/Director, US EPA Region 2 Library
> http://www.epa.gov/Region2/library/