Virtual Preservation: How Has Digital Culture Influenced Our Ideas about Permanence? Changing Practice in a National Legal Deposit Library

Mason, Ingrid

doi:10.1353/lib.2007.0055

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“…Mason argues the Web and digital culture has changed our sense of permanence, which in turn has changed the collecting practices the National Library of New Zealand. [11]. Phillips systematically address the question "what should be archived?…”

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How much of the web is archived?

Ainsworth

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SalahEldeen

et al. 2011

Proceedings of the 11th Annual International ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

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Although the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is the largest and most well-known web archive, there have been a number of public web archives that have emerged in the last several years. With varying resources, audiences and collection development policies, these archives have varying levels of overlap with each other. While individual archives can be measured in terms of number of URIs, number of copies per URI, and intersection with other archives, to date there has been no answer to the question "How much of the Web is archived?" We study the question by approximating the Web using sample URIs from DMOZ, Delicious, Bitly, and search engine indexes; and, counting the number of copies of the sample URIs exist in various public web archives. Each sample set provides its own bias. The results from our sample sets indicate that range from 35%-90% of the Web has at least one archived copy, 17%-49% has between 2-5 copies, 1%-8% has 6-10 copies, and 8%-63% has more than 10 copies in public web archives. The number of URI copies varies as a function of time, but no more than 31.3% of URIs are archived more than once per month.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

How much of the web is archived?

Ainsworth

AlSum

SalahEldeen

et al. 2011

Proceedings of the 11th Annual International ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

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“…Jedná se zejména o omezenou reprezentativitu, neúplnost a vysokou heterogenitu. Současný web je natolik rozsáhlý, že jeho kompletní archivace a standardní archivní postupy jsou zcela mimo reálné technické možnosti [Mason 2007]. Je proto vždy nutné vytvořit výběr, který bude archivován.…”

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Web Archives and Social Sciences: Opportunities, Problems and Solutions

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2019

Naše Společnost

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the Czech Republic and abroad. In the second section, we discuss issues of accessing web archive data. We distinguish technological access limitations, where the researcher is faced with large amounts of data and computing requirements, legal, and ethical limitations. Legal limitations break up to ones related to copyright and personal data protection. The article emphasises that there are ethical limitations in addition to technological and legal ones, which the researcher should always keep in mind and which should be respected in his/her approaching the data. As a partial solution to data access limitations, the article proposes creating and operating an analytical interface through which researchers could obtain aggregate web archive data without direct access to primary data.

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“…This can be done automatically by so-called crawlers and yields enormous haystacks of information on the history of the Internet. Not only the Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine operate like this, national libraries and archives have adopted and standardized this approach (Mason 2007). The Internet Archive will replay the pages thus harvested.…”

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Archaeology of the Amsterdam digital city; why digital data are dynamic and should be treated accordingly

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One of the major initiatives in The Netherlands promoting the use of the Internet by private individuals was De Digitale Stad (DDS), which is the Amsterdam digital city. DDS was launched in January 1994 and soon evolved from an elementary bulletin-board-like system to a full blown virtual city with squares, houses, post-offices, cafes and a metro. Archaeology of the digital city makes it clear that there is no beaten track for preserving and, after two decades, unwrapping "born digital" material. During the research to reconstruct the digital city two routes were tried, one emulating the old system, another replicating it. The outcome, together with the harvest of two working systems, is a lesson, a concern and an appeal. From the experience of reconstructing digital heritage, we draw pragmatic lessons. Tools for digital archaeology are tried and contemplated. The lessons, however, do not unequivocally support the use of the notion "archaeology." The concern is one of the social responsibilities. Web archaeology, being part of contemporary history, confronts the researcher with such issues as privacy and the ethics of "young" data. A case is made for treating digital data dynamically.

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Virtual Preservation: How Has Digital Culture Influenced Our Ideas about Permanence? Changing Practice in a National Legal Deposit Library

Cited by 6 publications

References 10 publications

How much of the web is archived?

How much of the web is archived?

Web Archives and Social Sciences: Opportunities, Problems and Solutions

Archaeology of the Amsterdam digital city; why digital data are dynamic and should be treated accordingly

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