This is the first edited volume to put the emerging field of web history on the agenda of
internet research. Sixteen original chapters investigate how the use of the web has …

The increasing use and prominence of web archives raises the urgency of establishing
mechanisms for transparency in the making of web archives to facilitate the process of …

Among the conceptual and methodological opportunities afforded by the Internet Archive,
and more specifically, the WayBack Machine, is the capacity to capture and “play back” the …

For historians, and researchers in many other humanities disciplines, web archives remain
largely an unknown, and certainly underused, primary source. Even within digital …

Web archiving initiatives around the world capture ephemeral Web content to preserve our
collective digital memory. However, unlocking the potential of Web archives for humanities …

The paper provides a review of published literature on the collection and development of
Web archives, focusing specifically on the theories, techniques, tools, and approaches used …

The OCLC Research Library Partnership Web Archiving Metadata Working Group was
formed to recommend descriptive metadata best practices for archived web content that …

The field of web archiving provides a unique mix of human and automated agents
collaborating to achieve the preservation of the web. Centuries old theories of archival …

With its seemingly limitless scope, the World Wide Web promises enormous advantages,
along with enormous problems, to researchers who seek to use it as a source of data …

This paper makes the case for studying the work of web archivists, in an effort to explore the
ways in which practitioners shape the preservation and maintenance of the archived Web in …