Web Archiving
The UK Web Archiving Consortium, comprised of six leading UK institutions, has officially announced plans to start backing up parts of the internet:
"...despite our apparent dependence on this medium very little attention has been paid to the long-term preservation of websites. Indeed, with the life of an average website estimated to be around 44 days (about the same lifespan as a housefly) there is a danger that invaluable scholarly, cultural and scientific resources will be lost to future generations." (UKWAC)
The British Library, Joint Information Systems Committee of the Higher and Further Education Councils , The National Archives, The National Library of Wales, the National Library of Scotland and the Wellcome Trust will run the project for an initial period of two years, during which approximately 6,000 websites will be collected and archived. This could include selected blogs.(DMeurope.com)
- Info via Blogcount.
I remember reading about the Internet Archive Wayback Machine at least a year ago, and at the time, checked out a few archived webpages from bands that I once frequented the websites of. It was neat to see what I remembered having seen when I first started using the internet in 1997. It was neat to get a glimpse once again of the way things had been.
Today when I checked the Wayback Machine it showed me eight pages of my own blog as they had been archived. True, I do have my own archives, but as is inevitable, some day those archives will disappear as well.
I used to back up all my personal weblogging on my own computer. I've never printed copies though. If some day Blogger were to crash, my two years of weblogging would be gone.
Do you back up your weblogging on your personal computer? Do you keep paper files of it somewhere? Is your weblog server the only place where there is a copy of your blog that you know of?
The UK Web Archiving Consortium, comprised of six leading UK institutions, has officially announced plans to start backing up parts of the internet:
"...despite our apparent dependence on this medium very little attention has been paid to the long-term preservation of websites. Indeed, with the life of an average website estimated to be around 44 days (about the same lifespan as a housefly) there is a danger that invaluable scholarly, cultural and scientific resources will be lost to future generations." (UKWAC)
The British Library, Joint Information Systems Committee of the Higher and Further Education Councils , The National Archives, The National Library of Wales, the National Library of Scotland and the Wellcome Trust will run the project for an initial period of two years, during which approximately 6,000 websites will be collected and archived. This could include selected blogs.(DMeurope.com)
- Info via Blogcount.
I remember reading about the Internet Archive Wayback Machine at least a year ago, and at the time, checked out a few archived webpages from bands that I once frequented the websites of. It was neat to see what I remembered having seen when I first started using the internet in 1997. It was neat to get a glimpse once again of the way things had been.
Today when I checked the Wayback Machine it showed me eight pages of my own blog as they had been archived. True, I do have my own archives, but as is inevitable, some day those archives will disappear as well.
I used to back up all my personal weblogging on my own computer. I've never printed copies though. If some day Blogger were to crash, my two years of weblogging would be gone.
Do you back up your weblogging on your personal computer? Do you keep paper files of it somewhere? Is your weblog server the only place where there is a copy of your blog that you know of?
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