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On 26/09/13 08:58, J. McRee Elrod wrote:
> In the last few days my use of the Internet has had two interruptions:
>
> A virus caused me to be taken to advertisements, as opposed to the
> site I had identified through a Web search.  A train derailment in
> Saskatchewan severed an optic cable, interfering with Web access in
> Western Canada.
>
>
> In the brave new world of linked data, will such interrupt ions affect
> patron aces to bibliographic data, assuming the data must be
> assembled from a variety of sources?

This also raises the question of whether we should be using https:// 
URLs rather than http:// URLs for the security of knowing that the 
information send by the remote party was the information we received.

cheers
stuart
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Stuart Yeates
Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/