The Role and Future of Web Archives - 1 views

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  #1 Rosalynn Rothstein on 30 May 12

   

  http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/05/a-vision-of-the-role-and-future-of-web-archives-conclusions-and-the-role-of-archives/
  This short post points out three roles of web archives: preservation, research and authentication. "A final emerging use of archives is as an authentication service. Web data is highly mutable, changing constantly, and there is no way to authenticate whether the page I see today is the same as what I saw yesterday, especially if the change is a small one."

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner"><a href="http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/05/a-vision-of-the-role-and-future-of-web-archives-conclusions-and-the-role-of-archives/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/05/a-vision-of-the-role-and-future-of-web-archives-conclusions-and-the-role-of-archives/</a> <br /> This short post points out three roles of web archives: preservation, research and authentication. "A final emerging use of archives is as an authentication service. Web data is highly mutable, changing constantly, and there is no way to authenticate whether the page I see today is the same as what I saw yesterday, especially if the change is a small one."</div>

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