How Perceptions of Web Resource Boundaries Differ for Institutional and Personal Archives

The Memento Tracer Framework: Balancing Quality and Scalability for Web Archiving

“…Hence, anyone in the community can utilize a trace created by another curator, for example the aforementioned Slideshare trace, to capture other slide decks. Since the perspective of what the essence of a web publication is may differ from one curator to the next [16], the repository supports multiple traces for a specific class of pages. Each can be unambiguously identified in the repository.…”

“…To assess archival quality, we compare its performance against 8 Quality of archived web resources is not trivial to measure. Different replay systems of Mementos may vary in performance and individuals' perception of what the essence of a resource is and hence which part of the resource needs to be part of the archived record may differ [16]. Rather than trying to find a compromise between these arguably subjective aspects, we decided to focus our quality assessment on the extent to which URIs that should be captured according to curatorial decisions are actually captured.…”

“…Guided by this trace 15 , all GitHub repositories archived with Memento Tracer should therefore, when replayed, contain all repository files as well as the ZIP file. The trace created for Slideshare guides the capturing process to include all slides as well as all notes per slide deck 16 .…”

On Identifying the Bounds of an Internet Resource

“…This led to the question of whether assumptions about the role of a personal archive were playing a role in the responses [90]. To explore this, we revised the second study to present the decisions in the context of an institutional archive.…”