The Web as History

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Theorizing Born Digital Objects: Museums and Contemporary Materialities

“…Archives and libraries have been developing solutions for the preservation of born digital documents since the 1990s (Waters and Garrett 1996). The Internet Archive was founded in 1996, while national libraries have also been archiving websites and, more recently, governmental social media streams (Brügger and Schroeder 2017). It is this work by the library and archives community that prompted UNESCO to propose a Charter for Digital Heritage.…”

How can we improve our web collection? An evaluation of webarchiving at the KB National Library of the Netherlands (2007–2017)

“…The Danish web historian Niels Brügger has described five analytical layers of the web to identify digital web objects (Brügger, 2010). These objects can be identified, harvested and archived on the following layers: the individual textual elements of a web page: source code, text, images, style sheets and so on; the individual web page: the layer where all above described elements can be found under a certain URL and which are linked to it; the individual website: the level where all linked web material which can be found under a certain domain name; the web sphere: the layer where all sites which are linked together with one certain website; and the web as a whole: the level where all websites are online at a certain moment. …”

Evolution of legal deposit in New Zealand

“…The New Zealand National Library Act 2003 included the right for the National Library to undertake web archiving. Web archiving is ‘the deliberative and purposive preservation of web material’ (Brügger, 2010: 349). It is achieved by the National Library of New Zealand under two mechanisms: web harvesting and electronic deposit (e-deposit).…”