Web Archiving
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: November 13, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9783540233381
Subjects: Databases & data structures; General Theory of Computing; Computers; Computers - General Information; Computer Books: General; Computer Science; Information Storage & Retrieval; Information Technology; Computers / Information Storage & Retrieval; Data Preservation; Digital Repositories; European Archive; Hidden Web; Internet Archive; OAIS Model; Web Collections; Web archiving; Computer Bks - General Information
First sentence: Cultural artifacts of the past have always had an important role in the formation of consciousness and self-understanding of a society and the construction of its future.
Description: The public information available on the Web today is larger than information distributed on any other media. The raw nature of Web content, the unpredictable remote changes that can affect it, the wide variety of formats concerned, and the growth in data-driven websites make the preservation of this material a challenging task, requiring specific monitoring, collecting and preserving strategies, procedures and tools. Julien Masanès, Director of the European Archive, has assembled contributions from computer scientists and librarians that altogether encompass the complete range of tools, tasks and processes needed to successfully preserve the cultural heritage of the Web. His book serves as a standard introduction for everyone involved in keeping alive the immense amount of online information, and it covers issues related to building, using and preserving Web archives both from the computer scientist and librarian viewpoints. Practitioners will find in this book a state-of-the-art overview of methods, tools and standards they need for their activities. Researchers as well as advanced students in computer science will use it as an introduction to this new field with a hopefully stimulating review of open issues where future work is needed.