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
What is web archiving?
Web archiving aims preserve selected sets of internet pages. Because the pages themselves are inherently impermanent -- subject to degradation, obsolescence, malicious destruction, and inadvertant alteration or deletion -- they are preserved by replication and by migration from outdated to current-day formats. The replicated pages are kept in entirety -- with accompanying format files, graphic images, and the like -- on preservation servers in safe environments. Because no server or server environment can be made fully safe and because server storage is not costly, mirror sites are often used in widely separated geographic locations.
Also see the Resources section of the parent web page, and see:
- Web archiving defintion.
- Web archiving entry in wikipedia.
- Web Archiving, a book edited by Julien Masanès, 2006.
- Glossary of Web Archiving Terms from the Internet Archive.
