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Missing Links: The Enduring Web

Year: 2009

Type: article

Abstract: The Web runs at risk. Our generation has witnessed a revolution in human communications on a trajectory similar to that of the origins of the written word and language itself. Early Web pages have an historical importance comparable with prehistoric cave paintings or proto-historic pressed clay ciphers. They are just as fragile. The ease of creation, editing and revising gives content a flexible immediacy: ensuring that sources are up to date and, with appropriate concern for interoperability, content can be folded seamlessly into any number of presentation layers. How can we carve a legacy from such complexity and volatility?

Source: International Journal of Digital Curation

DOI: 10.2218/ijdc.v4i2.103

Authors: Marieke Guy, Alexander Ball, Michael Day

Institution: UKOLN

Language: English

Topic: Digital and Traditional Archives Management

Subfield: Conservation

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W2054056512

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Cites: 6

Cited by: 1

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