Preserving the Internet

Kahle, Brewster

doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0397-82

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“…However, given that Web-located resources are being increasingly cited, there has been concern on the way that URL references are disappearing (Rumsey 2002). The disappearing Web-resource is manifested through the growing incidence of broken links-or link rot as Neilsen (2000) coined-an issue that was flagged by Kahle (1997) Koehler (1999) was one of the first to report on the concept of Web page permanency indicating that Web sites and pages underwent significant changes over a short period of time. Koehler's study tracked some 350 URLs from 1996 to 1998 and found that some 17.7% of web sites and 31.8% of web pages failed to respond when queried after 12 months.…”

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The impact of impermanent Web‐located citations: A study of 123 scholarly conference publications

Sellitto

2005

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

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The impact of impermanent Web‐located citations: A study of 123 scholarly conference publications

Sellitto

2005

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

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“…Focusing on the technology component, we note that a significant number of initiatives have been set up to develop technology prototypes to tackle some aspects of this problem. These initiatives include the Internet Archive (Kahle, 1997), the National Library of Australia's PANDORA project (n.d.), LOCKSS (Maniatis et al, 2005), the TPAP-Transcontinental Persistent Archive Prototype , the Universal Virtual Computer (Lorie, 2002), the Electronic Records Archives program at the National Archives (National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), and the Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) (The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, the Library of Congress).…”

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“…However the Web is an ephemeral medium whose contents are constantly changing and new information is rapidly replacing old information, resulting in the disappearance of a large number of Web pages every day and a permanent loss of part of our cultural and scientific heritage on a regular basis. The Internet Archive (Kahle, 1997), the world's largest Web archive, has been the leader in developing methodologies and standards for archiving Web contents. Its main goal is to capture significant snapshots over time of the whole Web and to archive the corresponding contents.…”

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Robust Tools and Services for Long-Term Preservation of Digital Information

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2009

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An unprecedented amount of digital information, appearing on a daily basis, needs to be archived and preserved over long time periods. Such information covers major facets of human activities such as business exchanges and electronic commerce, cultural and social interactions, e-government and legal proceedings, scientific studies and data collections, and even personal data such as digital photos and videos. It has been widely recognized that digital preservation is in general a very challenging process that requires innovations in institutional and business models, technology infrastructure, and social and legal frameworks.In this paper, we will report on some of the core archiving and preservation tools and services that we developed under a general technology framework called ADAPT-Approach to Digital Archiving and Preservation Technology. The ADAPT model is based on a layered, digital object architecture that includes a set of modular tools and services built using open standards and Web technologies. These tools are designed so that they can easily accommodate new standards and policies while gracefully adapting to the underlying technologies as they evolve. In particular, we will briefly describe our tools to (1) proactively audit and ensure data integrity over the lifetime of an archived digital object, (2) enable compact storage and fast access to large scale Web archives, and (3) manage ingestion workflows under a wide variety of environments. Most of these tools are currently being used to support the digital preservation environment of NDIIPP institution contents through the Chronopolis project.

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“…The Internet Archive (www.archive.org)-a collection of general Web pages-is the best known, but national collections (eg, Australia, pandora.nla.gov.au; Sweden, kulturarw3.kb.se) also exist. These archives capture the raw material of the Web, but cannot record usage [1]: which resources the Internet denizens of that moment found most useful or compelling, how the resources were accessed, how they were shared within a community, etc.…”

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