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General sources on web archiving

• An Overview of Web Archiving by Jinfang Niu in D-Lib, Magazine of Digital Library Research; discusses appraisal and selection, acquisition, organization and storage, description and metadata, and access and use
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• Web Archiving Guidance (pdf), National Archives (UK): "explains what web archiving is and how it can be used to capture information which is published online. It is aimed at people who are new to the concept of web archiving, and those who may have heard about it, but are unsure of potential options and methods available."
• PoWR, the Preservation of Web Resources Handbook, (pdf) Digital preservation for the UK HE/FE web management community, by the University of London Computing Centre - 2008. "One of the goals of PoWR is to make current trends in digital preservation meaningful and relevant to information professionals with the day-to-day responsibility for looking after web resources. ... The Handbook aims to provide suggestions for best practice and advice aimed at UK higher and further educational institutions, to enable the preservation of websites and web-based resources."
• Digital Preservation Toolkit by the Canadian Heritage Information Network
• DigitalPreservationEurope, a collaborative effort by European libraries, archives, and cultural institutions, "addresses the need to improve coordination, cooperation and consistency in current activities to secure effective preservation of digital materials. DPE's success will help to secure a shared knowledge base of the processes, synergy of activity, systems and techniques needed for the long-term management of digital material."
• Web Archiving Resources by Harvard University Library. "This list of resources covering web archiving tools and practices was last updated in 2007."
• Collaborations, Best Practices, and Collection Development for Born-Digital and Digitized Materials (pdf) from the University of North Texas Libraries - 2007. This is "a needs assessment to identify web archiving issues facing curators and librarians."
• Archiving Websites, General Considerations and Strategies (pdf) by Niels Brügger - 2005. "This book treats the micro archiving of websites, i.e. archiving by researchers, students or others without special technical knowledge who, using a standard computer, wish to save a website for further study. "
• Preserving the fabric of our lives (pdf), a survey of Web preservation initiatives by Michael Day - 2003. "This paper argues that the growing importance of the World Wide Web means that Web sites are key candidates for digital preservation. After an brief outline of some of the main reasons why the preservation of Web sites can be problematic, a review of selected Web archiving initiatives shows that most current initiatives are based on combinations of three main approaches: automatic harvesting, selection and deposit. The paper ends with a discussion of issues relating to collection and access policies, software, costs and preservation."
• Web site archiving - an approach to recording every materially different response produced by a website, by Kent Fitch - 2003. "This paper discusses an approach to capturing and archiving all materially distinct responses produced by a web site, regardless of their content type and how they are produced. This approach does not remove the need for traditional records management practices but rather augments them by archiving the end results of changes to content and content generation systems. It also discusses the applicability of this approach to the capturing of web sites by harvesters."
• Preservation Risk Management for Web Resources, by Anne R. Kenney, et al, D-Lib Magazine, January 2002, Volume 8 Number 1.
• Top 10 Tips For Preserving Web Sites (Microsoft WORD document) by UKOLN, undated. "This document provides top tips which can help to ensure that Web sites can be preserved."
• Web archiving from the National Library of Australia: "This page serves as an introduction to some of the major archiving initiatives that have been established by national libraries around the world to preserve their country's Web heritage."
• Selective web archiving bibliography from the Czech national library; organized by country, this page mainly lists published papers and articles.