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If you follow me on Twitter, you may have seen that the task I set out for myself this week was to devise a way to describe web archives using the tools available to me: Archivists’ Toolkit, …
All text is ephemeral. Some texts are more ephemeral than others. The web has proved to be among the most ephemeral and changing of information vehicles. The research note revisits Koehler's original...
Politwoop's API access revoked without warning; had archived posts, deletion times.
Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants…
This article is being co-published on the Teaching With the Library of Congress blog and was written by Butch Lazorchak and Cheryl Lederle. If you believe the Web (and who doesn’t believe everything they read on the Web?), it boastfully celebrated its 25th birthday last year. Twenty-five years is long enough for the first “children […]
It’s always hard when a newspaper dies. But when the alt-weekly Boston Phoenix passed away, it prompted one of the more notable media funerals in recent memory. After the announcement was made on Twitter, TV and radio crews stood outside, ready to interview staffers walking out for the last time. Later, pallbearers carried an “open-casket […]
In which the sigprops for news sites aren't really what the web archivists thought they were.
Update: I first pitched this series to Tuts+ because I thought it was an interesting, under-reported topic. After completing the first two episodes, I learned that I had a treatable, operable,...
This post was written by Ben Goldman, Digital Records Archivist. In honor of Preservation Week, I wanted to provide an introductory post (what I hope will be the first of several) on web archiving.…
Around the year 2007, just after Thanksgiving, my grandmother noticed a tiny seed near the faucet of her kitchen sink that had somehow, implausibly,...
On the death of Flash.
I was interviewed for an upcoming news article in Nature about the problem of link rot in scientific publications , based on the recent Kle...
D-Lib Magazine
"The bigger problem will be the projects that are in limbo... Google says that it will allow tarballs of projects (including source code, issues lists, and wiki pages) to be downloaded through the end of 2016. After that, however, it seems that the projects will be no more."
In the future, will platforms own our pasts?
The following is a guest post from Michael Neubert, a Supervisory Digital Projects Specialist at the Library of Congress. “Publishing of federal information on government web sites is orders of magnitude more than was previously published in print.  Having GPO, NARA and the Library, and eventually other agencies, working collaboratively to acquire and provide access […]
module 3 for hist3907b. Contribute to hist3907b-winter2015/module3-wranglingdata development by creating an account on GitHub.
A generation raised online risks forgetting its cultural touchstones, thanks to the whims of the web.