Note: Our section created a Zotero library for web archiving resources, so you can find all the resources featured in our monthly web archiving roundups in one place! You do not need to create an account to access our Zotero library. Each month, we’ll be updating our Zotero library with new links.
Here are a few quick links on interesting web archiving topics we’ve found recently:
- “Web Archiving as Entertainment” (live URL | archived URL)
- “The Cost of a Digital Archive” (live URL | archived URL)
- “The Text File That Runs the Internet” (live URL | archived URL)
- “Indexing the Information Age” (live URL | archived URL)
- “How to Future-proof Your Bibliographies Against Link Rot” (live URL | archived URL)
- “Robots Still Outnumber Humans in Web Archives in 2019, But Less Than in 2015 and 2012” (live URL | archived URL)
- “Google Cache Is Gone: How to View Archived Versions of a Website” (live URL | archived URL)
- “If the First Archived Copy by the Wayback Machine is 404, When Did the URL First Exist?” (live URL | archived URL)
- “Surveying Recent Work on Measuring Web Archiving and Replay Performance” (live URL | archived URL)
News:
- “After 34 years, one of the ‘Net’s oldest software archives is shutting down” (live URL | archived URL)
- “New Web Archive: State Policies on Book Challenges in Schools and Libraries” (live URL | archived URL)
- “Introducing ARCHWay” (live URL | archived URL)
**What is an archived URL? An archived url or permalink is a stable, archived record of a website with a unique permanent URL that points to the archived record so you can reference the source, even if the original disappears from the web.
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