Problems with Websites (5)

• Currency of information

  • If it isn’t managed, how do you know?
  • Move from “Last Modified” to “Valid Until” dates
    • Treats information like food (“Best Before”)
    • Helps promote a more active culture of maintenance
    • Checking can then be automated more easily
      • especially if metadata is used (but that’s another talk in itself)
    • Maintainer must be identifiable and contactable
      • Preferably an actual person, not just a job title
    • Someone must be actually “responsible”
      • The “author” may not be the “maintainer”
      • No good shooting the messenger
    • How often is this sort of information ever checked and enforced?

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