can't remember the name of the service I used...could it be Alexa.com? Anyone uses/recalls such a service?

I think this is the one you are after: www.archive.org ren www.renreynolds.com ---- Original message ----

Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 10:49:26 +0100 From: "Luca Meyer" <lucameyer@tiscali.it> Subject: R: [Air-l] on the web, research work proves ephemeral To: <air-l@aoir.org>

Interesting. Is there anyway to refer to some permanent "copy" of the web? I recall once I run into a copy of a web site I have run from 1996 to 1998 and that has been gone for several years now...I can't remember the name of the service I used...could it be Alexa.com? Anyone uses/recalls such a service?

Luca

Mr. Luca Meyer consumer research advisor http://www.lucameyer.com/en/

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-----Messaggio originale----- Da: air-l-admin@aoir.org [mailto:air-l-admin@aoir.org] Per conto di Lokman Tsui Inviato: mercoledì 26 novembre 2003 9.56 A: air-l@aoir.org Oggetto: [Air-l] on the web, research work proves ephemeral

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A8730-2003Nov23? langu age=printer

By Rick Weiss Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, November 24, 2003; Page A08

On the Web, Research Work Proves Ephemeral Electronic Archivists Are Playing Catch-Up in Trying to Keep Documents From Landing in History's Dustbin

It was in the mundane course of getting a scientific paper published that physician Robert Dellavalle came to the unsettling realization that the world was dissolving before his eyes.

The world, that is, of footnotes, references and Web pages.

Dellavalle, a dermatologist with the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Denver, had co-written a research report featuring dozens of footnotes -- many of which referred not to books or journal articles but, as is increasingly the case these days, to Web sites that he and his colleagues had used to substantiate their findings.

Problem was, it took about two years for the article to wind its way to publication. And by that time, many of the sites they had cited had moved to other locations on the Internet or disappeared altogether, rendering useless all those Web addresses -- also known as uniform resource locators (URLs) -- they had provided in their footnotes.

"Every time we checked, some were gone and others had moved," said Dellavalle, who is on the faculty at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. "We thought, 'This is an interesting phenomenon itself. We should look at this.' " [.. see link above for rest of article .. ]

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