Why Web Sites Are Lost (And How They're Sometimes Found)

Frank McCown; Catherine C. Marshall; Michael L. Nelson

doi:10.1145/1592761.1592794

Why Web Sites Are Lost (And How They're Sometimes Found)

Frank McCown
, Catherine C. Marshall
, Michael L. Nelson

Harding University

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Abstract

The authors discuss their creation of a web-repository crawler, Warrick, that restores lost websites from Internet Archive, Google, Live Search (now known as Bing) and Yahoo, collectively known as the Web Infrastructure (WI). They present the results of their online survey surrounding lost websites and their after-loss recovery. Respondents had either personally lost one of their web sites or had recovered someone else's web site. They found that esoteric sites were being restored. They suggest that technology to preserve digital materials will become more inclusive and seamless.

Original language	American English
Journal	Communications of the ACM
Volume	52
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1592761.1592794
State	Published - Nov 1 2009

Keywords

Information retrieval
Web archiving

Disciplines

Computer Sciences

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