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Kristine Hanna, Director of Web Archiving Services at Internet Archive, will discuss the significance of web archiving, the challenges libraries, archives and memory institutions face in the digital age, as well as some of tools and best practices currently in use to create a successful web archiving strategy.
The Internet Archive, located at http://www.archive.org/index.php on the web, has been involved in web archiving since 1996 when the organization was founded as an internet library to provide permanent access for researchers, historians and the general public to the world’s cultural artifacts. Additionally the web group at the Archive http://wa.archive.org/ works with institutions to created focused collections through crawling services and Archive-It, a web based application.
The Internet Archive is a founding members of the IIPC (International Internet Preservation Consortium http://netpreserve.org/about/index.php, and we work closely with national libraries and archives from around the globe to develop open source tools and document best practices for web archiving.
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Hanna, K. (2007). Digital Archiving: Making it Happen. In: Goh, D.HL., Cao, T.H., Sølvberg, I.T., Rasmussen, E. (eds) Asian Digital Libraries. Looking Back 10 Years and Forging New Frontiers. ICADL 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4822. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77094-7_4
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