A Guide for Archiving Web Pages
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Pages in This Section
- What is web archiving- How is web archiving done?
- - Web page best practices
- - Assuring accessibility
- - Using style sheets
- - Using meta tags
- - - Dublin Core metadata
- - Using a CMS
- - Assuring content integrity
- - Using a snapshot tool
- - Using web archiving tools
- - Server maintenance
- - Backing up
- Documentation
Best practices for backing up web page code
Web archiving does not include the practice of backing up the code of web pages as they are created and updated, but it assumes that this backing up takes place. Preferably there should be two or more backup copies of the entire website as it is made and altered. The backups should not all be on the same computer; at least one should be on a portable harddrive, backup tape cartridge, network-accessible server, or set of CD-ROM disks, and these external locations should be sustained in accordance with archival best practices.
Some resources on computer backup practices
- Digital Preservation Strategies, a multi-authored weblog.
- Care and preservation of removable digital and electronic media by the Institute of Conservation (2006)
- Archival Process for Data and Image Preservation: The Management and Preservation of Digital Media, from North Carolina State Archives (2008).
- Digital preservation from wikipedia.
- Long-term Preservation of Digital Documents, by Uwe M. Borghoff, et al; (Springer, 2006), ISBN 3540336397, 9783540336396; 274 pages.
- Cylinder, Disc and Tape Care in a Nutshell from the Library of Congress, with bibliography (2002).
- Optical media preservation from wikipedia.
- MEDIA PRESERVATION from Independent Media Arts Preservation
