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The open-source software communities currently face an increasing complexity of managing the software content among theirs developers and contributors. This is mainly due to the continuously growing size of the software, the high frequency of the updates, and the heterogeneity of the participants. We propose a distribution system that tackles two main issues in the software content management: efficient content dissemination through a P2P system architecture, and advanced information system capabilities, using a distributed index for resource location.

It is The National Archives' responsibility to collect and secure the future of the public record in all its forms and to make it as accessible as possible. The UK Government Web Archive1 (UKGWA) effectively preserves the open digital record. This article will explore the challenges encountered, and the Application Programming Interface (API) based solutions developed, by The National Archives and the Internet Memory Foundation (IMF) in the completion of a pilot project to capture the record as it is published on the social media services Twitter and YouTube. An outline of the wider web archiving programme and its role within the management of the government web estate is provided. The legislative framework that guides web archiving at The National Archives is described as it has necessarily influenced the policy decisions that shaped the solutions developed. A brief overview of some comparative approaches taken by other organizations and commercial services to capturing Twitter content is also presented as context to the policy and technical solutions arrived at by the authors. The National Archives has sought to develop the building blocks of a collection whose growth can be sustained over time. The publication of this part of the archive will be followed by further evaluation and improvements to the initial approach taken.

Although there are a great variety of web archiving projects around the world, there are not many that focus explicitly on websites of broadcasters. The reason is that funds are often lacking to do this, and that broadcaster websites are difficult to archive, due to their dynamic and audiovisual content. The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, with its collection of over 800,000 hours of audiovisual content has been involved in a small-scale research project related to web archiving since 2008. When Sound and Vision was approached by Dutch public broadcaster NTR to archive four of its websites, it was decided to start a collaborative pilot project that focused both on learning more about archiving broadcaster websites and developing a clean and modern public access interface. The main lesson learned from this pilot is that to archive highly dynamic and AV-heavy broadcaster websites it is vital to use supplementary capture tools and manual archiving of this ‘difficult’ content. Furthermore, since the focus of web archiving projects is usually not on a good-looking front-end, the wheel had to be partly re-invented by involving various stakeholders and determining the most important requirements. The first version of the web archive was evaluated by various prospective target users. This evaluation revealed that the participants indeed appreciated the look and speed of the web archive, and that users needed to be made more aware of the web archive's purpose and limitations. The work will be continued and scaled up, by archiving more broadcaster websites, continuing the research on how best to capture and make accessible dynamic and AV content, and by creating standard practices for making the web archive publicly available.

"Cancel culture refers to a social phenomenon that has been little explored in Romania. There has not been much debate and often this concern to better understand the history and to question certain things has been seen as an attack on the foundations of society and its values, as an attack stemming from globalism and neo-Marxism. In this article, I intend to show that we can find in the ancient institution of ostracism an origin for ""cancel culture"" and, moreover, like ostracism which aims at limiting too great a power, cancel culture can be seen as a manifestation of freedom, as a way of questioning and assuming the historicity of man and society."