
Publications and Research
Document Type
Presentation
Publication Date
5-2016
Abstract
The web is fragile and littered with broken links. This poses a problem for the scholarly record and one’s own academic history. In this presentation given at the Association of College & Research Libraries – Eastern New York chapter conference, I review the stats on link rot and reference rot, and I give a brief overview of web archiving and its challenges. I review some web archiving tools: the Internet Archive, Perma.cc, WebRecorder, and GitHub. I advise creators of web projects to design their websites to be accessible and archivable, and to think about preservation (afterlife) of their projects from the start of the planning stages. I advise librarians and archivists to become familiar with web archiving tools and archivability/accessibility practices so that they, in turn, can advise web project creators.
Recommended Citation
Davis, Robin Camille. “Die Hard: The Impossible, Absolutely Essential Task of Saving the Web for Scholars.” Eastern New York Academic and College Research Libraries Conference. Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY. 23 May 2016. Closing remarks.
Comments
Closing remarks presented at Eastern New York Association of College & Research Libraries (ENY/ACRL) Conference on May 23, 2016, at Skidmore College.
ORCID: 0000-0002-0548-0803