AMSTERDAM — A coalition of national libraries, university presses, and digital archivists inaugurated a federated preservation mesh today designed to halt the accelerating disappearance of primary civic documents from the live web.
Recent bibliometric audits revealed that nearly thirty-eight percent of web pages cited in judicial opinions and scientific papers published a decade ago no longer resolve at their original URLs.
Under the new charter, participating libraries exchange content-addressed SHA-256 archival bundles nightly, ensuring public-interest records survive domain expirations and platform shutdowns.