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blog-dshr-org-9536		DSHR's Blog: The Evanescent Web			.html	text/html	4395	488	74	Now Martin Klein and a team from the Hiberlink project have taken the genre to a whole new level with a paper in PLoS One entitled Scholarly Context Not Found: One in Five Articles Suffers from Reference Rot. Their dataset is 2-3 orders of magnitude bigger than previous studies, their methods are far more sophisticated, and they study both link rot (links that no longer resolve) and content drift (links that now point to different content). My problem with the presentation is that this paper, which has a far higher profile than other recent publications in this area, and which comes at a time of unexpectedly high visibility for web archiving, seems to me to be excessively optimistic, and to fail to analyze the roots of the problem it is addressing. I also see it as far too optimistic in its discussion of proposals to fix the problem of web-at-large references that it describes (see Dependence on Authors below). So future scholars depending on archives of digital journals will encounter large numbers of broken links.	./cache/blog-dshr-org-9536.html	./txt/blog-dshr-org-9536.txt