noWebarchive

Abstract

Preserving the cultural imprint of society is neither possible, nor desirable in whole: selection is unavoidable. More and more information is found on the web which is a volatile media. Web archiving is unavoidable – but the author argues that the information we want to eternalise should be treated as follows: be put to a proper format (e.g. a book, printed or digital), stored in a repository or a database. Long term preservation aspects of repositories and databases are discussed too. Finally, when we resort to web archiving, the content producer should co-operate with the web archiver, and the information needed for proper archiving (including licences) needs to be embedded into webpages.