The Future of Web Archiving
Web archiving
This video showcases six presenters discussing the future of web archiving. Presenters include Stephen Abrams (California Digital Library), Martin Klein (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Jimmy Lin (University of Maryland) and Michael Nelson (Old Dominion University). Topics include preservation of web content and resolving archival access to the general public. Despite the advancements in web archiving there still remains many challenges. The presenters reflect not only on the present condition of web content, preservation, and access but also on its future progress. One major preservation concern going forward is the notion of the “personalized web.” With the ability to apply many filters, it is important to identify and collect the primary source materials.
Abrams, Stephen, Klein, Martin, Lin, Jimmy, Nelson, Michael
Library of Congress
2014-10-09
Raible, John
Webinar
Guides to Good Practice
Web Archiving
This website was designed and produced by the UK Archaeology Data Service and Digital Antiquity in the US over the course of a two-year collaborative project. Designed to be a guide for good standards to follow in the world of digital archiving, it outlines what digital archiving is, the goals a project should have as well as a list of principles for archiving digital data. These outlines will help to guide and keep a new project on its feet and on the right path instead of wavering and turning to a different and unrelated purpose.
Additionally the website goes a step beyond simply giving goals and principles and gives two case studies; one in the loss of digital data and another for the study of data recovery. Both of these invaluable information for seasoned or budding archivists.
Archaeology Data Service, Digital Antiquity
Archaeology Data Service, Digital Antiquity
Donahue, Marisa
Website
Archiving websites: a practical guide for information management professionals
Web archiving
Drawing on the author's experience of managing the National Archives' web archiving programme together with lessons learned from other international initiatives, this book offers a comprehensive overview of current best practice, together with practical guidance on establishing a web archiving programme.
Brown, Adrian
Facet Publishing
2006
Branch, Justin
CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals 2009-2015.
Book
ISBN: 9781856045537
When the Present Web is Later the Past: Web Historiography, Digital History, and Internet Studies
Web Archiving
This article argues for focus on preservation of the World Wide Web for future use by digital humanists and historians. It discusses the methods used to create web archives, as well as the limitations and problematic results of these methods. Its focus is not on providing preservation solutions, but on discussing the importance of web archiving and its methodological issues to incentivize improvement within the field.
Brügger, Niels
Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences, Center for Historical Social Research
2012
Wolf, Casey
Journal Article
Archiving Websites: General Considerations and Strategies
Web Archiving
The book Archiving Websites: General Considerations and Strategies by Niels Brügger is mainly for researchers, students, and others without special technical knowledge who wish to save a website for further study. This is for those who wish to start archiving to better preserve their research or studies without needing to have the technical skill some types of archiving require. It talks about what kind of archiving can be done on a standard computer and how to best utilize what you have on hand. The contents are also discussed from the standpoint that Internet research must be able to stabilise and save the object of its analysis.
Brügger, Niels
2005
Jordan Lunsford
Book
Best of Both Worlds: Museums, Libraries, and Archives in the Digital Age
Archives
In this text Clough uses the example of the Smithsonian museum to ask and then answer the question, "How can we prepare ourselves to reach the generation of digital natives who bring a huge appetite-and aptitude-for the digital world?" His text discusses how the digital archiving of 2D materials for the Library of Congress and the National Archives have certainly paved the way for future digital archiving but how there are greater challenges for the museum and places attempting to put 3D objects into 2D Internet access. He explores how the impact of the digital world affects libraries and museums, specifically the Smithsonian. Clough emphasizes and attempts to provide answers for the difficulties of creating a digital world, such as making 3D objects 2D for online access and interaction.
Clough, Wayne G.
Smithsonian Books
2013
Polk, Victoria
E-Book
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Both-Worlds-Libraries-Archives-ebook/dp/B00EVT2XG0/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1430924416&sr=1-2&keywords=digital+archive
The Rise and Fall of Text on the Web: A Quantitative Study of Web Archives
Web Archiving
This study addresses the following research question: is the use of text on the World Wide Web declining? If so, when did it start declining, and by how much has it declined?
Cocciolo, Anthony
Information Research: An International Electronic Journal
2015-09
Allen, Amber
Journal Article
Digital Ephemera and the Calculus of Importance
Web Archiving
In this blogpost, Dan Cohen, executive director of the Digital Public Library of America, argues that square root sampling, a mathematically developed method for crime prevention, can help archivists make acquisition decisions, especially when large amounts of ephemera are to be archived. Cohen contends that ephemera are important collections of primary sources for practicing historians. Yet he acknowledges that the amount of available ephemera is overwhelming. The Calculus of Importance can help determine which ephemera to keep. The Calculus of Importance, according to mathematician William Press, is the ideal way to determine who should be screened for criminal activity. Cohen exemplifies the method, which is essentially a weighted form of random sampling, and maintains that it does not only apply to crime prevention, but in several other fields, archiving among them. Cohen asserts that using the calculus of importance on digital ephemera and other records that exist in large quantities is advantageous because we cannot anticipate who or what will be deemed important by future historians.
Cohen, Dan
05-17-2010
Laura Moeller
Blog article
The evolution of web archiving
web archiving
Analyzes results of two surveys, finding patterns and trends in web archiving practices around the globe indicating significant growth in the practice of web archiving
Costa, Miguel; Gomes, Daniel; Silva, Mário
International Journal on Digital Libraries
2017
Steven Eley
Article
ISSN: 1432-5012
Digital Archives: Management, Access and Use
Archives
Digital Archives looks over the rapid technological changes and the push to digitize people's cultural heritages are changing the landscape of archives. The book also features contributions that offer state of the art solutions in building and maintaining digital archives.
Dobevra, Milena and Ivacs, Gabriella.
Facet Publishing
2016
Van Dresar, Megan
Book
ISBN: 9781856049344