{"id":501,"date":"2017-03-01T16:59:30","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T16:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/perma\/?p=501"},"modified":"2017-03-01T17:11:48","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T17:11:48","slug":"perma-in-the-news-slaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/perma\/2017\/03\/01\/perma-in-the-news-slaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Perma in the news: Slaw Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slaw.ca\/2017\/02\/01\/84741\/\">column<\/a> from &#8220;Slaw,&#8221; an Canadian online legal magazine, looked at the prevalence of link rot in material cited by the Supreme Court of Canada [SCC] in the wake of Harvard Law School&#8217;s 2014 study, which found that 50% of URLs cited in US Supreme Court Opinions no longer link to their original material.<\/p>\n<p>Nate Russell, the column&#8217;s author, found that of the 29 URLs cited in cases from 2016, only 72% remain healthy, with seven redirecting and one already broken. \u00a0For citations from 2011, Russell says the SCC&#8217;s links &#8220;are right near the morbidity sweet spot&#8221; with only three out of 17 reporting as healthy (ten redirect and four fail).<\/p>\n<p>Russell, who works for Courthouse Libraries BC (a legal information non-profit in British Columbia), highlights Perma.cc as &#8220;a slick, simple to use, peace-of-mind-giving tool that is already saving us from link rot in one of our legal publishing projects.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To get started using Perma.cc yourself, sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/perma.cc\/\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n<blockquote data-secret=\"CxGqHrMLi2\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slaw.ca\/2017\/02\/01\/84741\/\">The Sweet Morbidity of Link Rot<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slaw.ca\/2017\/02\/01\/84741\/embed\/#?secret=CxGqHrMLi2\" data-secret=\"CxGqHrMLi2\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;The Sweet Morbidity of Link Rot&#8221; &#8212; Slaw\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent\u00a0column from &#8220;Slaw,&#8221; an Canadian online legal magazine, looked at the prevalence of link rot in material cited by the Supreme Court of Canada [SCC] in the wake of Harvard Law School&#8217;s 2014 study, which found that 50% of URLs cited in US Supreme Court Opinions no longer link to their original material. Nate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8729,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RYx6-85","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/perma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/perma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/perma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/perma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8729"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/perma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/perma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":514,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/perma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions\/514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/perma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/perma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/perma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}