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Libraries for Future Generations
Martha AndersonDirector National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation ProgramThe Library of Congress
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Wall Street Journal, July 27, 2005
Currently reports over150 billion Web pages
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www.netcraft.com
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International Internet Preservation Consortium
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International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) goals
Collect and preserve a rich body of Internet content from around the world
To foster the development and use of common tools, techniques and standards that enable the creation of international archives
To encourage and support national libraries everywhere to address Internet collecting and preservation
http://netpreserve.org
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Why are libraries and archives collecting and preserving web sites?
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Global information resourceNews & AdvertisingEncyclopedias & Dictionaries Art, Scholarship, Science,
Education Government Information
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An artifact of cultural and technological changePublishing Virtual communities &
social networks Online government
services User-generated & shared
content
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National law and institutional missionLegal Deposit,Parliamentary and
Legislative Service,Preservation and
Access to Cultural Heritage
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Web Collection Approaches
Entire WebNational Domain Selective Thematic
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Common Themes
EventTopic/SubjectRegion/Web DomainGenreOrganization
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Today’s web sites are the tomorrow’s research collections.
Useful for public policy research, scholars of history, language and culture, students, and genealogists.
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Flickr Facebook Twitter WikipediaYouTube
Since IIPC began its work
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Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Access and Preservation Report, March 2010
Collectively created web contentPriority Actions:
Provide clarification about long-term value and selection criteria
Model and test preservation strategies
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35,000 queries per second55 million posts per day1 trillion urls
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Thinking beyond the web pageIndividual and corporate Volume and granularity Content and data Access and time Stakeholder relationships
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A collaborative future
Selection networksCollecting communitiesProducer, creator, researcher,
steward alliances
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…The Net represents the growth of a new society
within the old.The Net represents a new model of governance.The Net is the greatest free marketplace of ideas
that has ever existed.The Net is in imminent danger of extinction.
The Net is immortal…
Excerpted from The History of the Net, Master's Thesis, Henry Edward Hardy,1993, http://www.netvalley.com/.
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References
Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Access and Preservation www.brtf.edu
The Economist, Feb 27,2010, The Data Deluge
Economist,com/specialreportsIIPC
www.netpreserve.org