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Archive: May 2012 (4 Posts)

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A Vision of the Role and Future of Web Archives: The Web Archive in Today’s World

Posted by: Abbey Potter

The following is a guest post by Kalev H. Leetaru, University of Illinois, who presented these ideas at the 2012 General Assembly of the IIPC. This post is the first in a three-part series. Imagine a world in which libraries and archives had never existed. No institutions had ever systematically collected or preserved our collective …

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@IIPC12: A Week of Web Archiving

Posted by: Abbey Potter

The Library of Congress was thrilled to host the 2012 International Internet Preservation Consortium General Assembly April 30 – May 4th. Over 150 registrants packed meeting rooms to discuss all aspects of web archiving. From legal issues to technical challenges to research use, the entire lifecycle of web archiving was covered. As a library and …