Web Archiving [Paperback]

This book assembles contributions from computer scientists and librarians that altogether encompass the complete range of tools, tasks and processes needed to successfully preserve the cultural heritage of the Web. It combines the librarians application knowledge with the computer scientists implementation knowledge, and serves as a standard introduction for everyone involved in keeping alive the immense amount of online information.

Web Archiving: Issues and Methods.- Web Use and Web Studies.- Selection for Web Archives.- Copying Websites.- Archiving the Hidden Web.- Access and Finding Aids.- Mining Web Collections.- The Long-Term Preservation of Web Content.- Year-by-Year: From an Archive of the Internet to an Archive on the Internet.- Small Scale Academic Web Archiving: DACHS.

From the reviews:

The book addresses the problem of preserving the vast amount of information available on the web. & presents a useful index, as it helps bring together related issues presented by the various contributing authors. There are also a number of relevant figures. A comprehensive list of references after each chapter is also given. & a valuable source of information offered by a range of experts in the field, this book is recommended reading for archivists, record managers, librarians, computer scientists and information managers & . (Tony Rodrigues, Online Information Review, Vol. 31 (6), 2007)

Julien Masan?s is a cofounder and the Director of the European Archive, a non-profit foundation for Web preservation and digital cultural access. Before this he had directed the Web Archiving Project at the Biblioth?que nationale de France (BnF) since 2000. He also participated very actively in the creation of the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC), which he coordinated during its first two years.

He is a curator and received a degree in librarianship at ENSSIB (Lyonlc<