Ensuring Long-Term Access to the Memory of the Web Preservation Working Group of the International Internet Preservation Consortium

Archiving the Web is the process through which documents and objects on the World Wide Web are captured and stored. There are and have been a number of ways through which this has been accomplished, but the end result is archived Web content (Web site, page, or part of a Website) that is preserved f...

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Published in:International preservation news 2012-12 (58), p.34-37
Main Authors: Oury, Clément, Steinke, Tobias, Jones, Gina
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Archives & records
Data bases
Humanities and Social Sciences
Library and information sciences
Migration
Preservation
Public access
Web sites
Working groups
World Wide Web
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Summary:Archiving the Web is the process through which documents and objects on the World Wide Web are captured and stored. There are and have been a number of ways through which this has been accomplished, but the end result is archived Web content (Web site, page, or part of a Website) that is preserved for future researchers, historians and the general public. Preservation involves maintaining the ability to present meaningful access to information over time. In the context of Web archives, the intention of preservation is to retain access to archived Web resources, so they can continue to be used and understood despite changes in access technologies or without unacceptable loss of integrity or meaning. The International Internet Preservation Consortium, chartered in 2003, is made up of institutions with basically similar goals of preserving Web content for heritage purposes and which generally share the same harvesting and access tools.
ISSN:0890-4960