Towards building a blog preservation platform

Abstract

Social media content and user participation has increased dramatically since the advent of Web 2.0. Blogs have become relevant to every aspect of business and personal life. Nevertheless, we do not have the right tools to aggregate and preserve blog content correctly, as well as to manage blog archives effectively. Given the rising importance of blogs, it is crucial to build systems to facilitate blog preservation, safeguarding an essential part of our heritage that will prove valuable for current and future generations. In this paper, we present our work in progress towards building a novel blog preservation platform featuring robust digital preservation, management and dissemination facilities for blogs. This work is part of the BlogForever project which is aiming to make an impact to the theory and practice of blog preservation by creating guidelines and software that any individual or organization could use to preserve their blogs.

What's cached is prologue: Reviewing recent web archives research towards supporting scholarly use

“…This includes, for example, the development of metrics for archivability and methods to capture dynamic Javascript content (Banos & Manolopoulos, 2016;Brunelle et al, 2016;Kelly et al, 2013). There have also been developments to automate discovery of new content for genres like blogs or websites of public broadcasters (Baltussen et al, 2014;Kasioumis et al, 2013). This work focuses on developing solutions to create better, more complete, or more timely web archives; it remains a major challenge for archives to keep up with the changing technologies of the web.…”

Accessing web archives from different perspectives with potential synergies

“…Together with an information service for mathematical software 4 , we eventually established these links in their system 5 . While this example is very domain-specific to software, the same idea can be applied to other scenarios as well, such as preserving the evolution of people by archiving their blogs and social network profiles [8,9,10]. Another example is the preservation of Web citations, like on Wikipedia, to provide access to cited page at the time when it was cited 6 .…”

Archiving Software Surrogates on the Web for Future Reference

“…Finally, the goal of this study is to investigate the applicability of Web archiving to preserve representative surrogates of software. Even though this particular subject has not been tackled before, other researchers looked into Web archiving to create preservation copies of other types or Web resources, such as blogs [21] and social networks [22]. SalahEldeen and Nelson [23] found a nearly linear relationship between time and the percentage of lost social media resources.…”