What's the average lifespan of a web page?
I found loads of references to the 2011 @librarycongress article that says 100 days...
Except it doesn't say that! It says references a study in *2003* which concluded that.
https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2011/11/the-average-lifespan-of-a-webpage/ …
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Replying to @dietrich @librarycongress
Michael L. Nelson Retweeted Michael L. Nelson
here's a relevant thread from a few months ago:https://twitter.com/phonedude_mln/status/1067858148952891393 …
Michael L. Nelson added,
Michael L. Nelson @phonedude_mln"44 days" is often quoted, and probably derives from@brewster_kahle's 1997 Scientific American article: "Preserving the Internet" http://web.archive.org/web/19970504212157/http://www.sciam.com/0397issue/0397kahle.html … though note that his 1996 preprint of that article uses "75 days" http://web.archive.org/web/19971011050140/http://www.archive.org/sciam_article.html …#wdpd18 https://twitter.com/UniSheffieldLib/status/1067757000048558080 …Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
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Great, thanks so much for sharing :D
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This is very helpful, thanks. I met
@ibnesayeed last year in SF and had some great conversations
Our projects (IPFS/Filecoin) often reference that dubious+ancient 100 day number, so I want to replace with more contemporary research.2 replies 1 retweet 5 likes -
Yeah, it's easier to use that number. I think everyone listens to the caveats about sample bias, high std dev, sites vs URLs, etc. and then decide "so, 100 days is it?" ;-)
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Hm, is the "age of a web page" question itself a relic of the pre-app internet era? In terms of knowledge loss, how relevant is web page archival in a time where so much human activity has moved into walled gardens? Is there contemporary research in this area?
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Michael L. Nelson Retweeted Michael L. Nelson
and the ACM TOIS paper shows that the archival rate for non-English/Western pages is still pretty bad:https://twitter.com/phonedude_mln/status/1067858153310703617 …
Michael L. Nelson added,
Michael L. Nelson @phonedude_mlnPerhaps the IA bias is the best we can do. Also note that the archival rate for non-English, non-Western pages is not good: * English: 72.04% * Arabic: 53.36% * Danish: 35.89% * Korean: 32.81% https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3041656 http://www.cs.odu.edu/~mln/pubs/jcdl-2015/jcdl-2015-arabic-sites.pdf …#wdpd18Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
Ok, thanks for the pointers!
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