Web-Archiving

Pennock, Maureen

doi:10.7207/twr13-01

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“…In one ongoing study, 'Integrated Multimedia City Data' (iMCD), the researchers at UBDC are collecting data from multiple sources to supplement a representative household survey in order for social scientists to gain a better '[understanding of] the complexity of decision-making in the areas covered by the survey and the possible influences of contextual factors'. 8 One strand of data will include crawling Twitter and Facebook feeds for textual data as well as gathering visual data from social media and other web outlets. In another study carried out in partnership with Policy Scotland, social media data comprised the central resource and object of analysis.…”

Section: Urban Big Data Centre (Ubdc)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Facebook, for instance, has recently closed access to its public API, restricting access to a select number of commercial solutions for web archiving and preserving web archives can be found in the study and practice of web archiving. 12 [8] The distinct problem presented by social media derives from the raw data generated by the platforms themselves -comprised of a network of databases -that can either be pulled from an API or acquired (or purchased) directly from a platform or from a third party data service. Once the researcher or institution has obtained the relatively small sample of social media data permitted through an API or through purchase, strict terms and conditions forbid many actions critical to robust digital preservation.…”

Section: Problem Of Accessmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Preserving Social Media: The Problem of Access

Thomson

Kilbride

2015

New Review of Information Networking

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Section: Urban Big Data Centre (Ubdc)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Problem Of Accessmentioning

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Preserving Social Media: The Problem of Access

Thomson

Kilbride

2015

New Review of Information Networking

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“…It is selective and not intended to be comprehensive of all standards and best practices in digital preservation more generally, many of which are discussed in other reports in the DPC Technology Watch Report series. In particular, readers are referred to the report on web archiving (Pennock, 2013) for discussion of harvesting and other standards and best practices relevant to web content and the presentation files for e-journals from publishers' websites.…”

Section: Standards and Best Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…8 For wider discussion of web archiving and related technical issues see the companion DPC Technology Watch Report on web archiving (Pennock, 2013).…”

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Preservation, Trust and Continuing Access for e-Journals

Beagrie¹

2013

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ForewordThe Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is an advocate and catalyst for digital preservation, ensuring our members can deliver resilient long-term access to digital content and services. It is a not-for-profit membership organization whose primary objective is to raise awareness of the importance of the preservation of digital material and the attendant strategic, cultural and technological issues. It supports its members through knowledge exchange, capacity building, assurance, advocacy and partnership. The DPC's vision is to make our digital memory accessible tomorrow.The DPC Technology Watch Reports identify, delineate, monitor and address topics that have a major bearing on ensuring our collected digital memory will be available tomorrow. They provide an advanced introduction in order to support those charged with ensuring a robust digital memory, and they are of general interest to a wide and international audience with interests in computing, information management, collections management and technology. The reports are commissioned after consultation among DPC members about shared priorities and challenges; they are commissioned from experts; and they are thoroughly scrutinized by peers before being released. The authors are asked to provide reports that are informed, current, concise and balanced; that lower the barriers to participation in digital preservation; and that they are of wide utility. The reports are a distinctive and lasting contribution to the dissemination of good practice in digital preservation.The report is published by the DPC in association with Charles Beagrie Ltd. Neil Beagrie, Director of Consultancy at Charles Beagrie Ltd, was commissioned to act as principal investigator for, and managing editor of, this Series in 2011 and has authored this report. He has been further supported by an Editorial Board drawn from DPC members and peer reviewers who comment on text prior to release: William Kilbride (Chair), Janet Delve (University of Portsmouth), Sarah Higgins (University of Aberystwyth), Marc Fresko (Inforesight), Tim Keefe (Trinity College Dublin), Andrew McHugh (University of Glasgow) and Dave Thompson (Wellcome Library). AcknowledgementsThe author is grateful to William Kilbride for taking on the role of acting managing editor for this report, to Daphne Charles for reading drafts, and to attendees at the DPC workshop on e-journal archiving and colleagues who gave their time commenting and helping to shape the outline of the report's contents. Particular and substantial thanks are due to David Rosenthal and Vicky Reich (LOCKSS), Adam Rusbridge (UK LOCKSS Alliance), Liam Earney and Lorraine Estelle (Jisc Collections), Neil Grindley (Jisc), Kate Wittenberg (Portico), Marcel Ras and Barbara Sierman (KB), and Randy Kiefer (CLOCKSS). Over the years I have been privileged to work with a number of colleagues on e-journal archiving studies including Maggie Jones, Julia Chruszcz, Najla Rettberg, Mary Auckland, Terry Morrow, and Matthias Hemmje and staff at Globale Informationstech...

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“…Due to the complexity of the Web archiving process, crawl results are frequently imperfect, making quality review an important step for the long-term success of a Web archiving program (Pennock, 2013). Ideally, the implementation of a quality assurance program ensures that the Web content crawled by the institution has been accurately and completely archived so that the capture includes not only HTML content but also the look and feel of the site, as well as embedded documents and audiovisual materials.…”

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confidence: 99%

Capture All the URLs: First Steps in Web Archiving

Antracoli

Duckworth

Silva

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As higher education embraces new technologies, university activities-including teaching, learning, and research-increasingly take place on university websites, on universityrelated social media pages, and elsewhere on the open Web. Despite perceptions that "once it's on the Web, it's there forever," this dynamic digital content is highly vulnerable to degradation and loss. In order to preserve and provide enduring access to this complex body of university records, archivists and librarians must rise to the challenge of Web archiving. As digital archivists at our respective institutions, the authors introduce the concept of Web archiving and articulate its importance in higher education. We provide our institutions' rationale for selecting subscription service Archive-It as a preservation tool, outline the progress of our institutional Web archiving initiatives, and share lessons learned, from unexpected stumbling blocks to strategies for raising funds and support from campus stakeholders. IntroductionIn Pennsylvania and elsewhere, higher education is experiencing many significant shifts as it adjusts to the new capabilities and culture of digital technology. While MOOCs and mediated classrooms dominate the news, the disruption of universities' long-established information sharing and communication practices has been mostly unacknowledged. Static analog recordkeeping is being uprooted as dynamic digital media replace the printed publications long preserved by university archivists. Some of these digital files bear a resemblance to their print ancestors, but others present much more complexity. University course catalogs, for example, may now take the form of a relational database, refreshed each year with updated digital content. Internal records, such as assessment reports and faculty senate meeting minutes, previously typed and stored in departmental filing cabinets, are now emailed to recipients in digital formats (often PDF). Press releases, once simply typed on university letterhead, are now dynamic Web pages, often featuring embedded media files like images and videos. Student clubs and activities, once carefully preserved in the campus newspaper and annual yearbook, have moved onto social media pages and Web apps. Alumni plan their reunions on Facebook, while current students trade photographs on Instagram andSnapChat.Accompanying these changes in format is a similar disruption in scale. As digital information becomes easier to create and share, university departments and divisions produce an even more prolific body of records. The sheer number of born-digital documents and the frequency and regularity with which they are updated or replaced by new information simply overwhelms traditional archival practice. How can university archivists and records managers ever hope to gather, select, preserve, and manage their institutional records? The complexity of this question has proved staggeringly difficult for many institutions, forestalling necessary action.Still, these digital preservation challenges urgently...

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Web-Archiving

Cited by 19 publications

References 8 publications

Preserving Social Media: The Problem of Access

Preserving Social Media: The Problem of Access

Preservation, Trust and Continuing Access for e-Journals

Capture All the URLs: First Steps in Web Archiving

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