#DPClinic July – A Vision for Trustworthy Web Archiving

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In this DPClinic, we will hear from Michael L. Nelson on a vision for trustworthy web archiving.

A record of contemporary history would be highly incomplete without representation of materials available via the internet. Making functional and accurate copies of web pages for use in archives is challenging to say the least. With web archives there are multiple specific types of errors or nuances that arise regularly. For example, the locations (web addresses) of resources online can change frequently making the information on those web pages unavailable (also known as link rot). The subject matter or salient points on a web page can change, which alters the significance or meaning of that information (also known as content drift). Link rot and content drift have always been a part of the web experience: as we share links and create bookmarks, the content at those links often disappears or changes so much that it no longer reflects our original intent. Currently, we see this with increasing frequency with entire government websites disappearing or radically altering their content to reflect changing priorities and narratives. In the absence of a unified and consistent strategy, alternate archives and data rescue efforts have arisen to replace the content lost. But how do we know the new pages faithfully maintain the content of the pages they purport to replace? In this talk, we explore how a network of accessible, publicly available, independent, interoperable, robust, auditable, cooperating web archives can be used to preserve the web.

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