[-empyre-] Fwd: [Air-l] New book on website archiving - perhaps of interest?

[kath <aliak77@gmail.com>]

Hi, this arrived in my inbox today - perhaps it's useful to some
people on the list regarding archiving websites. I had a quick read.

do organisations archive content only, not formatting of the whole site? the
cms I use (www.drupal.org) has a feature called import which can grab
pages from other sites, and also rss imports. also, reblog.org has a
reblogging tool - are these counted as methods of website archival.
(obviously only suitable for sites with rss/database type feeds). 
how do you decide which sites to archive?
cheers
Kath

(apologies if this message comes through multiple times - I've just
swapped email addresses due to bounces so not sure if the previous
send failed)


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Niels BrÃgger <nb@imv.au.dk>
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 13:19:47 +0100
Subject: [Air-l] New book on website archiving
To: air-l@aoir.org


NEW BOOK ON WEBSITE ARCHIVING

Archiving Websites. General Considerations and Strategies
by Niels BrÃgger
76 pages

Cover text
"This book treats the micro archiving of websites, i.e. archiving by
researchers, students or others without special technical knowledge
who, using a standard computer, wish to save a website for further
study. The phenomenon is discussed from the standpoint that Internet
research must be able to stabilise and save the object of its analysis.
However, the Internet is endowed with certain fundamental
media-specific dynamics that make stabilisation difficult. Based on an
account and discussion of these dynamics (linked as they are to sender,
text and recipient) the following double conclusion is reached.
        Firstly, unlike other well-known media, the Internet does not simply
exist in a form suited to being archived, but rather is first formed as
an object of study in the archiving, and it is formed differently
depending on who does the archiving, when, and for what purpose.
Secondly, this means that there is an element of subjective creation in
the archived material, so that methodical deliberations are necessary â
in other words, the answers to why and how the archived material has
been created. These conclusions form the starting point for the last
section of the book, which, based on comprehensive tests of archiving
software, discusses in depth the elements that can be included in an
archiving strategy."

The book is free of charge, and as long as in print, copies of the book
may be obtained by contacting cfi@imv.au.dk. Please specify complete
address. An electronic version of the book can be obtained on
http://cfi.imv.au.dk/eng/pub (for the purpose of citation please note
that the printed and electronic versions are identical).

In connection with the publication of the book a website has been
established where it is possible to find the conclusions of the test,
the detailed test results, recommendations for using the individual
programmes, a detailed description of the test, and links to resources
on net archiving. The website address is
http://cfi.imv.au.dk/eng/pub/webarc.

Niels BrÃgger, PhD, is an associate professor of Media Studies at the
Institute of Information and Media Studies, University of Aarhus,
Denmark, and co-founder of the Centre for Internet Research.

________________________________________________________________________
_______________

NIELS BRÃGGER, Associate Professor, PhD
Dept. of Information and Media Studies
University of Aarhus
Helsingforsgade 14
8200 Aarhus N
Denmark

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