tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1114085177538107957.post3140563144302840472..comments2023-05-05T02:08:52.375-07:00Comments on Digital Preservation and Information : Website PreservationSarah Joycehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11116130581597537480noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1114085177538107957.post-20640176911124007662014-11-30T16:03:18.601-08:002014-11-30T16:03:18.601-08:00I use the Wayback Machine all the time in my job a...I use the Wayback Machine all the time in my job as a prospect researcher. It is the most comprehensive website I have found for web archiving. Whenever I come across an expired page I enter the link into website and I would estimate it comes back with results about 50% of the time. I also use google cache with varying degrees of success. Most of the pages that I am looking at are old bios from previous employers or board membership pages. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08334626057471821267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1114085177538107957.post-25667953253072461232014-11-30T15:41:03.829-08:002014-11-30T15:41:03.829-08:00I went to the site, Claire, and had a little troub...I went to the site, Claire, and had a little trouble navigating, but it seems interesting! It actually goes along with a question I had when reading through this post. Is it important to archive the actual look of websites? I think there is a valid argument for archiving content, regardless of how mundane the content may seem at the time (a la Twitter posts), but as you point out in this post, Sarah, Facebook has changed it's layout a number of different times - so much so, that I don't even know what it looked like when I joined 10 years ago! I'm sure Facebook has saved it's past layouts, but is there any purpose for this? Or is it more of a novelty archive?<br /><br />Also, is it theoretically possible to archive ALL of the internet's content? It's being added to and changed at such an alarming rate, I would think it's just not possible. Did you come across anybody trying to take this on during your research? Just me being curious. But to tie it into one of your questions, I would put the responsibility of archiving on the host sites. Facebook out to feel a responsibility to archive it's content, Google should archive Blogger content, ESPN (or its parent company Disney) should archive the content on espn.com, etc. Then, if some other party is interested in archiving content (for instance, the Library of Congress archiving Twitter feed), then that would be a cooperation between the two parties.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03297603610422291203noreply@blogger.com