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D-Lib Mar/Apr 2012 Jinfang Niu |
Functionalities of Web Archives The functionalities that are important to the users of web archives range from basic searching and browsing to advanced personalized and customized services, data mining, and website reconstruction. |
Information Today January 31, 2011 Gary Price |
Internet Archive Releases New Version of The Wayback Machine Wayback is an essential internet research tool and should be one of the first resources discussed when teaching basic web-based research skills. It offers more than 150 billion archived web pages with some material dating back to 1996. |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2012 Jinfang Niu |
An Overview of Web Archiving This overview is a study of the methods used at a variety of universities, and international government libraries and archives, to select, acquire, describe and access web resources for their archives. |
Information Today August 23, 2012 Nancy K. Herther |
Internet Archive Turns Up the Speed With BitTorrent The Internet Archive gave peer-to-peer file sharing a major boost by making more than 1 million books, movies, and other media immediately available as "torrents" from BitTorrent instead of solely relying on HTTP for downloading content. |
Salon.com November 2, 2001 Katharine Mieszkowski |
Dumpster diving on the Web The Internet Wayback Machine aims to archive everything online. But will copyright laws leave nothing but junk? |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2014 Gretchen Nadasky |
Preserving Web-based Auction Catalogs at the Frick Art Reference Library The Frick Art Reference Library began the "Reframing Collections for a Digital Age" project to address the stability of born-digital art research materials. |
IEEE Spectrum March 2011 Ariel Bleicher |
A Memory of Webs Past The Web is a rollicking, revealing record of life in the 21st century. But preserving it for future historians is a monumental technical challenge |
Information Today September 8, 2003 Barbara Quint |
Internet Archive Adds Search Engine The Recall search engine offers some features specifically designed for archive searching. For example, it has time-based modifiers next to the search box that allow users to specify the time frame from which they want pages retrieved. |
D-Lib February 2006 |
A Research Library Based on the Historical Collections of the Internet Archive As digital libraries expand, we can look forward to a day when humanities and social science scholars replace much of the tedious manual effort with computer programs. Here is a description of a library that is being built for such research. |
D-Lib May/Jun 2013 Gray & Martin |
Choosing a Sustainable Web Archiving Method: A Comparison of Capture Quality This paper contributes a unique empirical analysis of the quality of websites archived using two divergent web archiving methods and sets of tools. |
Fast Company August 2004 Fiona Haley |
Where Do Old Web Sites Go to Die? When URL stands for U R Lost... or Left Behind... or Languishing... there's still hope. |
Search Engine Watch November 22, 2006 Mary Ellen Bates |
Google As News Archivist Until recently, it was difficult to find news archives on the web more than 30 days old. That's changed in a big way with the advent of Google's News Archive search. |
D-Lib January 2000 Gail M. Hodge |
Best Practices for Digital Archiving: An Information Life Cycle Approach Digital information is fragile in ways that differ from traditional technologies, such as paper or microfilm. It is more easily corrupted or altered without recognition... |
D-Lib Jan/Feb 2016 Brunelle et al. |
Leveraging Heritrix and the Wayback Machine on a Corporate Intranet: A Case Study on Improving Corporate Archives We outline the challenges of Intranet web archiving, identify situations in which the open source tools are not well suited for the needs of the corporate archivists, and make recommendations for future use. |
ONLINE Nov/Dec 2004 Greg R. Notess |
On The Net - Dating the Web: The Confusion of Chronology Exploring the Internet dating scene for the information professional means understanding the dimensions, deficiencies, and differences of the various dates associated with Web pages. |
Information Today September 18, 2006 Barbara Quint |
Who? What? How Much?: Google News Archive Premium Content Suppliers Three of the big five national newspapers have opened their archives to Google News Archive. |
D-Lib September 2001 Dale Flecker |
Preserving Scholarly E-Journals For research libraries, the long-term preservation of digital collections may well be the most important issue in digital libraries. In certain ways, digital materials are incredibly fragile, dependent for their continued utility upon technologies that undergo rapid and continual change... |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2015 McCown et al. |
Tools for Discovering and Archiving the Mobile Web Many websites are adapting their content for users who are accessing the Web using smartphones and tablets. The growth of this Mobile Web has required web archivists to change their practices in order to collect this ephemeral web content. |
D-Lib December 2002 Rauber et al. |
Uncovering Information Hidden in Web Archives A glimpse at web analysis building on data warehouses |
Information Today May 1, 2008 Barbara Quint |
OCLC Introduces High-Priced Digital Archive Service The $750 a year minimum price tag for OCLC's Digital Archive service may make it vulnerable to challenges from the plummeting cost of large storage devices and "cloud computing" operations, such as Amazon Web Services. |
Information Today January 2, 2007 |
Internet Archive Receives Sloan Foundation Grant The Internet Archive's efforts to digitize content and make it freely accessible online have received a tremendous boost from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. |
D-Lib January 2006 Bailey & Thompson |
UKWAC: Building the UK's First Public Web Archive Despite difficulties, the UKWAC project has been an important project for digital curation and for digital preservation in the UK. |
Information Today October 1, 2012 Barbara Quint |
Internet Archive Opens TV News Section What is now available on the new Internet Archive service is not all that the Archive has stored. According to Brewster Kahle, founder and head of the Internet Archive, the Archive has been collecting television news since the year 2000. |
Information Today October 3, 2005 Barbara Quint |
Open Content Alliance Rises to the Challenge of Google Print Google Print's ambitious effort to digitize the world's book literature has inspired others to initiate their own effort. |
Wired December 2003 Gary Wolf |
The Great Library of Amazonia 120,000 fully searchable texts and counting. Jeff Bezos is building the world's biggest digital book archive. It's an info-age dream come true -- and the best way to sell books ever. |
D-Lib Jan/Feb 2013 Michael Rumianek |
Archiving and Recovering Database-driven Websites In this paper, a procedure is presented that overcomes the problems faced by archivists of database-driven websites. |
Information Today June 13, 2011 |
The New Physical Archive of the Internet Archive Internet Archive announced it is building a physical archive for the long-term preservation of one copy of every book, record, and movie it is able to attract or acquire. |
Search Engine Watch November 6, 2003 Danny Sullivan |
The US White House & Blocking Search Engines At the end of last month, controversy erupted over the US White House preventing portions of its web site from being indexed by search engines. Was the White House doing this as a means to rewrite history unnoticed, or was it an innocent mistake? |
Search Engine Watch May 18, 2006 Chris Sherman |
Building the Universal Library What will it take for Google or another search engine to truly assemble a library of all of the world's information? Here is a fascinating look at the challenges. |
D-Lib October 2001 Brewster Kahle |
Public Access to Digital Material The goal of universal access to our cultural heritage is within our grasp. With current digital technology we can build comprehensive collections, and with digital networks we can make these available to students and scholars all over the world... |
ONLINE May/Jun 2003 Greg R. Notess |
Unlocking URLs: Extensions, Shortening Options, and Other Oddities As we ship URLs to each other and use them in citations, unlocking some of their stranger secrets, along with knowledge of URL shortening tools, can make it easier to actually get to the appropriate Web page. |
Information Today September 18, 2006 Barbara Quint |
Traditional Information Industry Opens Premium Content to Google News Archive The Google News Archive integrates free with for-fee references, alerting users to priced information, often with the actual price tag amounts, before connecting them with paid content Web sites. |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2012 Stirling et al. |
Web Archives for Researchers: Representations, Expectations and Potential Uses Cultural heritage institutions such as national libraries are perceived as trusted third parties capable of creating rationally-constructed and well-documented collections, but such archives raise certain ethical and methodological questions. |
Information Today August 28, 2008 Barbara Quint |
Consortium--Minus NARA--Archiving Bush Administration Websites Archiving policies, procedures, and assignments have not kept pace with the rapid switch of the federal government to web technology. |
D-Lib February 2008 Ian G. Anderson |
Necessary but Not Sufficient: Modelling Online Archive Development in the UK The process of archive development is hampered by the lack of a template for identifying and evaluating online archive information and services or a model for understanding their development. |
Information Today December 7, 2009 Barbara Quint |
Archiving Web Shortcuts: Internet Archive Launches 301Works.Org Participating companies will provide sets of their URL mappings to 301Works.org with regular updates. |
InternetNews October 10, 2007 Jennifer Schiff |
Library of Congress Readies New Digital Archive After several years of planning and testing, the Library of Congress is about to put its new petascale archive into production. |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2014 Leetaru et al. |
Cultural Computing at Literature Scale: Encoding the Cultural Knowledge of Tens of Billions of Words of Academic Literature As the mass-scale computational study of culture has expanded from digitized books to news media, to social media, to television, a data source which has remained largely absent is the vast archive of academic literature of the humanities and social science disciplines. |
IEEE Spectrum July 2005 MacKenzie Smith |
External Bits How can we preserve digital files and save our collective memory? The open-source DSpace project sees not only the problem of preserving the data, but also making it readable, playable or watchable many years later. |
Search Engine Watch September 6, 2006 Chris Sherman |
Google Debuts 200 Year News Archive Search News and history junkies take heart: Google's new News Archive Search lets you search back over twenty decades worth of historical content, including scads of articles not previously available via the search engine. |
Information Today November 20, 2008 |
LIFE's Photo Archive Available on Google Time, Inc. has announced that access to LIFE's photo archive -- more than 10 million images in total -- will be available on a new hosted image service from Google. |
Information Today October 8, 2012 |
ProQuest Expands Support for Research in Arts and Humanities Continuing its mission of making hard-to-find journals accessible to the world's researchers, ProQuest released the 10 th collection in its Periodicals Archive Online. |
Information Today September 15, 2008 Barbara Quint |
Google Digitization Initiative to Expand Google News Archive The company has offered free digitization to any newspaper publisher willing to put all or any part of its archives onto the web for access through Google News Archive. |
Searcher Jul/Aug 2003 Larry Krumenaker |
Tribunes and Tribulation The Top 100 Newspaper Archives (or Lack Thereof) A look at the options available for searching archives of the most popular newspapers. |
Information Today December 1, 2015 |
DPLA Helps Make Audiovisual Collections Searchable The Digital Public Library of America partnered with Pop Up Archive to offer discounts that help the DPLA hubs and their partners use Pop Up Archive to make their audiovisual collections searchable. |
Information Today November 21, 2011 |
Gale to Unveil New Times Digital Archive Gale's first digital archive ever to be released continues to be its best-selling and best-known property: The Times Digital Archive. |
Information Today August 24, 2009 |
ProQuest Adds New Content to Periodicals Archive Online ProQuest, LLC announced that Periodicals Archive Online offers three more ways to build a library's research archive with the addition of The Spectator to Collection 7, the launch of Collection 8, and the development of 5 additional years of coverage for journals in Collections 1-5. |
Information Today April 2, 2015 |
Internet Archive and DPLA Form Partnership The Internet Archive and the Digital Public Library of America joined forces for a joint program that will enhance collection sharing from the Internet Archive in the DPLA. |
D-Lib July 2001 |
In Brief Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries... Project ANGEL: Guidance and Guardianship for Networked UK Learners... The City of Los Angeles Spatial Index is Now Available on the Internet... Caltech Registers Two Repositories with the Open Archives Initiative... etc. |
InternetNews August 24, 2007 Larry Barrett |
NASA to Digitize Greatest Moments in Space Space junkies and scholars will be able to relive 50 years of space exploration from their browsers. |