Parts of Australia’s valuable cultural history could be lost forever if web archiving is not seriously undertaken in Australia, the National Library of Australia has warned.With information including art, photos, video and important government documents being published solely online, the library warns that history is at risk unless a stronger emphasis is placed on archiving.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/05/07/2563251.htmHit save before dot-com becomes dot-gone: archiving web content
If we don’t take steps to resource and support the methodical preservation of our public web culture we stand to lose huge slabs of it into the void of time, writes National Library of Australia web archiving manager Paul Koerbin.Because we experience the web fundamentally in the present it may seem lofty to think of preserving it, though that is precisely what a small coterie of what some might consider ‘digital Don Quixotes’ have been doing for more than a decade now.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/05/07/2562951.htm
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