NISO intros new site. Old links: kablooie.

You remember that NISO event I attended all of um, 4 days ago?

http://www.niso.org/news/events_workshops/discovery08/

Kablooie.
Gone with no redirect.
If you dig around the site, you can make your way to

http://www.niso.org/news/events/niso/past/discovery08/

which is empty.

Why does this always happen on a site redesign?  Does no one care about preservation?  Persisting URLs?

I don't know if Archive managed to harvest them, they're not showing anything at the moment.

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.niso.org/news/events_workshops/discovery08/

I guess the best that's possible right now is to look at the Google cache, just to prove I didn't imagine the entire event

http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.niso.org/news/events_workshops/discovery08/

I wonder, should Archive provide a link to try Google cache, when it doesn't get a page match in its own DB?  How long does Google's cache of lost pages last anyway?