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Since 1994, people have set up collections of digital content on the web with software now outdated. Those collections are valuable, but loose funding and care as institutions re-configure their tasks and individuals retreat from their task due to retirement or (as volunteers) to old age. |
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Group: Web |
Trend: New Entry |
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Added to List: 2019 |
Last update: 2019 |
Previous category: New Entry |
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Imminence of Action Action is recommended within three years, detailed assessment in 12 months |
Significance of Loss The loss of tools, data or services within this group would impact on people and sectors around the world. |
Effort to Preserve It would require a major effort to prevent losses in this group, such as the development of new preservation tools or techniques. |
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Examples Academic and institutional website from the first decade of the web containing details of research projects and interests as well as research data. |
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‘Practically Extinct’ in the Presence of Aggravating Conditions Inaccessible to web archive; bespoke code; insufficient documentation; uncertain intellectual property right. |
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‘Endangered’ in the Presence of Good Practice Secured by web archive; documentation and rights information published alongside |
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2019 Review This is a new entry received from the open submission process and assessed by the Jury. It has an overlap with the entry with ‘Semi-Published Research’ Data’ which was classified as ‘Endangered’. The Jury has approved this entry as a means of distinguishing ‘current’ and ‘legacy’ collections: and in this case the fact that materials are no longer actively maintained means that the risks of loss are greater. |
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Additional Jury Comments The Internet Archive and other national web archiving bodies have copies of a lot of websites which would fit into this category, but by no means all. There’s also a distinction between the software or code used to deliver the user experience and the data. Such code is secondary to the content. |
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