AMAZING overview.

URL shortener going boom.

The following is a guest post by Nicholas Taylor, Web Archiving Service Manager for Stanford University Libraries. I’m inclined to blame the semantic flexibility of the word “archive” for the fact that someone with no previous exposure to web archives might variously suppose that they are: the result of saving web pages from the browser, […]

The prevalence of linkrot in scholarship has been documented in studies of journals in biology and medicine, communications, ecology, library and information science, and social science (Hennessey …

The New York Times brings us news of a growing problem in the world of Supreme Court opinions: "link rot," a term coined to describe hyperlinks used to...

When I started developing websites back in the day, I was lucky to have hundreds of valuable, practical articles that would help me become better at what I did. I could learn day and night, and whenever I discovered a new tool or technique, I would bookmark it on Delicious for future reference. I knew the value of each article and of each bookmark, and I kept revisiting and carefully tagging them for months and months — almost every day.

Three years ago I wrote a post on the importance of a tamper-resistant system for government documents , and another  a year ago. Government...

The following document is a bibliography of the field of web archiving. It includes a preface as well as a list of bibliographical resources.

User-generated content (UGC) has become a part of personal digital collections on the Web, as such collections often contain personal memories, activities, thoughts and even profiles. With the increase in the creation of personal materials on the Web, the needs for archiving and preserving these materials are increasing, not only for the purpose of developing personal archives but also for the purpose of capturing social memory and tracking human traces in this era. Using both survey and interview methods, this study investigated blogs, one popular type of UGC, and analyzed travel bloggers’ perceptions of the value of blogs and the elements of blogs that are important for preservation. The study respondents found personal and sentimental value (e.g., a way to express themselves, a way to keep personal memories and thoughts, and a way to maintain a record for their family) to be the most important reason for preserving blogs, followed by informational value and cultural/historical value. Sharing also appeared as one of the values that respondents found in their blogs. The respondents reported that self-created blog posts (content) and information related to the blog posts (context) are more important to preserve than some other elements (behavior and appearance). Integrating what bloggers consider as most valuable and what archivists think are worth preserving may be an important step when collecting personal blogs.

Put not your faith in cloud services. This is why.

Tool that pulls a Twitter search into a Google Spreadsheet.

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The Archive-It team is excited to publish our first white paper:  The Web Archiving Life Cycle Model. With this paper we hope to share web archiving best practices and processes ...

The following is a guest post by Abbie Grotke, Library of Congress Web Archiving Team Lead While organizations have been archiving the web since the mid-1990s, it’s only in the last few years that there’s been a surge in web archivists speaking out about issues they encounter, uses of archives, and innovations in tools and […]

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Guest post from Sarah Weissman describing difficulties in scoping web archiving projects focused on web forums.

Presentation given at the Digital Cultural Humanities DC Meetup on the gamut of web archiving tools.

Badly-coded website foils preservation crawler.