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Archiving websites – a new challenge to archives
code:
029
juill. 22
14:30 - 17:00
Room:
307
Description
Langue(s) de présentation:
Anglais
Abstract:
In the past decade, the World Wide Web has become the most important platform for making information available. However, today the platform lacks sustainability, and information that influences political decisions or any kind of public opinion-making would often no longer be retrievable after short periods of time. Keeping track of current decision- and opinion-making processes would therefore be virtually impossible for future historians, if websites were not preserved. Archiving websites has to take into account (a) all substantial changes they undergo, (b) the variety of file types embedded, and (c) the inter-connectedness of websites. SPP/ICA dealt with the issue within the framework of a project carried out in the years 2004-2006 when a working group of German parliamentary and party archives succeeded in finding a common approach for the recording or "mirroring" of websites. The results were discussed at the SPP/ICA conference held in Bonn in 2006. Sharing the results of the conference with archivists from other ICA bodies and giving them practical advice on how to develop strategies for archiving websites will be the subject of the workshop. Even though the whole workflow of website-archiving will be addressed, the workshop will focus on the specific problems of data transfer (mirroring) and on the different ways of indexing (index, description, metadata).
Auditoire visé:
Archivists interested in or confronted with the need to archive websites.
Overall purpose and significance of session:
The workshop aims to raise awareness of the task of website-archiving as a new challenge to archivists, to present guidelines for archiving websites, and to give practical advice on how to develop one's own strategy in this field. It seeks to encourage participants to start archiving websites.
Content description:
The workshop will consist of two 60-minute sessions. The first session will be devoted to enhancing awareness and developing guidelines; the second one to practical exercises in applying these guidelines.
First session: Günther Schefbeck: Will the information flood of today be the information desert of tomorrow? Rudolf Schmitz: Presentation of guidelines for archiving websites. Günther Schefbeck, Rudolf Schmitz and Reinder van der Heide: Presentation of the proceedings of the conference “The WWW as a challenge and a chance for parliamentary and party archives” (Bonn, 2006).
Second session: Rudolf Schmitz: Practical exercises in website-archiving.

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