When the Present Web is Later the Past: Web Historiography, Digital History, and Internet Studies

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

Brügger, Niels. “When the Present Web Is Later the Past: Web Historiography, Digital History, and Internet Studies.” Historical Social Research 37, no. 4 (2012): 102–17. Accessed April 22, 2016. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41756477.