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How much of the web is archived?

Year: 2011

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: The Memento Project's archive access additions to HTTP have enabled development of new web archive access user interfaces. After experiencing this web time travel, the in- evitable question that comes to mind is "How much of the Web is archived?" This question is studied by approximating the Web via sampling URIs from DMOZ, Delicious, Bitly, and search engine indexes and measuring number of archive copies available in various public web archives. The results indicate that 35%-90% of URIs have at least one archived copy, 17%-49% have two to five copies, 1%-8% have six to ten copies, and 8%-63% at least ten copies. The number of URI copies varies as a function of time, but only 14.6-31.3% of URIs are archived more than once per month.

Source: ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

DOI: 10.1145/1998076.1998100

Authors: Scott G. Ainsworth, Ahmed Alsum, Hany SalahEldeen, Michele C. Weigle, Michael L. Nelson

Institution: Old Dominion University

Language: English

Topic: Digital and Traditional Archives Management

Subfield: Conservation

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: Los Alamos National Laboratory

OpenAlex ID: W2137187346

FWCI: 91.13

Cites: 16

Cited by: 96

Related to: 10