Web Archiving

IIPC Video: Why Archive the Web?

Reasons to Archive the Web

• Preserve a permanent, time-stamped copy of born-digital material, which is intrinsically susceptible to change or deletion
• Create permalinks (permanent hyperlinks) that avoid link rot in web pages and citations/bibliographies
• Protect scientific and public data from censorship
• Use machine-automated crawling to track website changes that are difficult for humans to detect
• Hold corporations and persons accountable for their published speech, such as on Twitter
• Plan responsibly for the preservation of soon-to-be deleted web sites, domains, faculty and student web projects, etc.
• Manage web server storage more efficiently by outsourcing the storage of past versions of web content