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Can we rely on trying to ‘harvest’ the web?
Dr. David S.H. Rosenthal, who is Chief Scientist at LOCKSS, and Kris Carpenter Negulescu of the Internet Archive recently organized a workshop on the problems of harvesting and preserving the Web as it evolves from a collection of linked HTML documents to a programming environment whose primary language is Javascript.
David and Kris, with help from staff at the Internet Archive, put together a list of 13 problem areas already causing problems for Web preservation:
Read more about this on David’s blog:
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