Web Archiving
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Web Archiving
Author: Julien Masanès
language: en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date: 2007-02-15
The public information available on the Web today is larger than information distributed on any other media. The raw nature of Web content, the unpredictable remote changes that can affect it, the wide variety of formats concerned, and the growth in data-driven websites make the preservation of this material a challenging task, requiring specific monitoring, collecting and preserving strategies, procedures and tools. Julien Masanès, Director of the European Archive, has assembled contributions from computer scientists and librarians that altogether encompass the complete range of tools, tasks and processes needed to successfully preserve the cultural heritage of the Web. His book serves as a standard introduction for everyone involved in keeping alive the immense amount of online information, and it covers issues related to building, using and preserving Web archives both from the computer scientist and librarian viewpoints. Practitioners will find in this book a state-of-the-art overview of methods, tools and standards they need for their activities. Researchers as well as advanced students in computer science will use it as an introduction to this new field with a hopefully stimulating review of open issues where future work is needed.
Web Archives and Web Archiving
Author: Asger Harlung
language: en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date: 2025-04-23
Web archives are repositories of content preserved from the World Wide Web, not to be confused with other types of archives that offer services or content online. Web archives preserve content that otherwise tends to disappear or change rapidly, which probably makes them the most important initiative towards preservation of cultural heritage in our age. Never before have the actions, ongoings, sentiments, trends, decision processes; in politics, business and industry, institutions, news media, entertainment providers, interest groups, and individuals, been documented or preserved at the level of detail offered by ongoing and systematic preservation of the Web, with content from all levels of society. This book strives to present the underlying methods and reasons for preserving web content, with a focus on the principles (rather than specific methods that may become obsolete almost as quickly as web pages may disappear), and on detailing the nature of the archived results with its potentials and pitfalls.
The Archived Web
An original methodological framework for approaching the archived web, both as a source and as an object of study in its own right. As life continues to move online, the web becomes increasingly important as a source for understanding the past. But historians have yet to formulate a methodology for approaching the archived web as a source of study. How should the history of the present be written? In this book, Niels Brügger offers an original methodological framework for approaching the web of the past, both as a source and as an object of study in its own right. While many studies of the web focus solely on its use and users, Brügger approaches the archived web as a semiotic, textual system in order to offer the first book-length treatment of its scholarly use. While the various forms of the archived web can challenge researchers' interactions with it, they also present a range of possibilities for interpretation. The Archived Web identifies characteristics of the online web that are significant now for scholars, investigates how the online web became the archived web, and explores how the particular digitality of the archived web can affect a historian's research process. Brügger offers suggestions for how to translate traditional historiographic methods for the study of the archived web, focusing on provenance, creating an overview of the archived material, evaluating versions, and citing the material. The Archived Web lays the foundations for doing web history in the digital age, offering important and timely guidance for today's media scholars and tomorrow's historians.