Archiving before Loosing Valuable Data? Development of Web Archiving in Europe

Lasfargues, France; Martin, Chloe; Medjkoune, Leïla

doi:10.1515/bfp-2012-0014

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“…Archived pieces of the web will provide essential evidence in the construction of historical knowledge of our time. Various efforts currently exist to capture the web at the local, national, international as well as institutional or community levels [50,62,78]. Studies of these efforts center around more efficient methods for capturing the dynamic web and increasing discoverability of the archived web by examining tools, policies, and metadata [19,38,67].…”

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Bots, Seeds and People

Summers

Punzalan

2017

Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

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The field of web archiving provides a unique mix of human and automated agents collaborating to achieve the preservation of the web. Centuries old theories of archival appraisal are being transplanted into the sociotechnical environment of the World Wide Web with varying degrees of success. The work of the archivist and bots in contact with the material of the web present a distinctive and understudied CSCW shaped problem. To investigate this space we conducted semi-structured interviews with archivists and technologists who were directly involved in the selection of content from the web for archives. These semi-structured interviews identified thematic areas that inform the appraisal process in web archives, some of which are encoded in heuristics and algorithms. Making the infrastructure of web archives legible to the archivist, the automated agents and the future researcher is presented as a challenge to the CSCW and archival community.

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