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A presidential “legacy” via rewritten history

By Ira Nathenson on November 25, 2008

Web archiving is a topic of great interest to me and the subject of an article I’m writing.  Part of the paper addresses the Bush administration’s questionable conduct regarding the content of the White house website.  For example, the White House website’s robots exclusion file — a mechanism that can be used to ask search [...]

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Is Zoetrope the next-gen Internet Archive?

By Ira Nathenson on November 22, 2008

Although the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine is a great research tool, its utility is hampered but a lack of basic search mechanisms.  One can search by URL and archived links, but basic Google-style boolean searching isn’t available.  The Archive once offered a beta boolean search tool, but it never worked and it was later withdrawn.
However, [...]

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Yet another report on digital preservation

By Ira Nathenson on July 22, 2008

It must be Digital Preservation Week.
Just a few days ago, I wrote about the Library of Congress’ new report on digital preservation (which itself followed the report of the Section 108 Study Group issued last March).  Now, the Commission of the European Communities has released a green paper entitled Copyright in the Knowledge Economy, which [...]

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