Note: The final LiWA project review took place in Luxembourg on March 11th, 2011. From the Newsletter: Web content plays an increasingly important role in the knowledge-based society, and preservation and longterm accessibility of Web history have high value. The European funded project LiWAs looked beyond the pure “freezing” of Web content snapshots for a […]
Now Available: Living Web Archives (LiWA) Newsletter #3 Summarizes Results and Findings of Project
Filed by on April 7, 2011
Online Archive of University of Michigan Web Sites, Pages Now Publicly Available
Filed by on April 5, 2011
The California Digital Library (CDL) has announced that the University of Michigan Web Archive curated by Nancy Deromedi and Michael Shallcross was recently made publicly access on the web. The Bentley Historical Library (BHL) at the U. of Michigan partners with CDL’s Web Archiving Service. From a CDLInfo Post: The University of Michigan Web Archive contains 490 archived sites from the umich.edu […]
"Lessons From the Library: Behind the UK's Web Archive"
Filed by on March 23, 2011
From Computer Weekly: The truth is that the British Library has some of the most experienced and talented technologists in the IT and communications space, applying cutting-edge technology to solve some pretty tough and very interesting problems. And their mission is not to bring a traditional institution into the modern age, because it’s already there. […]
Article: "A Tangled Web of Shortened Links"
Filed by on March 5, 2011
From a Technology Review Article: Last month, the Libyan government temporarily cut off access to the Internet within the nation’s borders. The goal was to control the flow of information to the public and disrupt coordination among the demonstrators. The shutdown failed to do either, but for a while it threatened to have an odd […]
