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This is a guest post by Abbie Grotke, Web Archiving Team Lead at the Library of Congress. What do you get when mix six lawyers and more than 25 web archivists in a room together? No, not a joke. When you’re serious about the topics of legal deposit, permissions responsibilities, access concerns, and robots.txt, you […]
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The Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University.
The following is a guest post by Nicholas Taylor, Information Technology Specialist for the Repository Development Group at the Library of Congress. As much as we can do to preserve archived websites once we have them, the challenges we encounter are always already determined by how those websites were originally constructed. In the interest of […]
WARC is a tool for archiving websites that captures details of the implementation environment as well as the code. Apparently wget has a WARC mode, as well.
In the shaky and often promiscuous business of the Web, where companies fold and merge at astonishing speed, you can’t always trust that Web sites will take long-term care of your digital treasures.
The following is a guest post by Nicholas Taylor, Information Technology Specialist for the Repository Development Group. Though presented as a unified experience, a website depends on many interrelated parts: document markup and dynamic code, assorted binary file types, software interpreters and platforms. The challenge of web archive preservation planning is to save this experience, […]
One year after Twitter donated its archives, the Library of Congress is still building the infrastructure to make the data accessible to researchers.
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