The Web as a Preservation Medium

"Digital preservation is access, in the future."

Availability of URLs cited in arXiv

http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

http://line-mode.cern.ch/

HTML

"... digital information lasts forever--or five years, whichever comes first"

or not

Small Data

Image Credits

• Aaron Swartz by Sage Ross
• Marshall McLuhan from the National Library of Canada
• Link Clump by Siaron James
• Analyzing the Persistence of Referenced Web Resources with Memento by Robert Sanderson, Mark Phillips, Herbert Van de Sompel.
• Brewster Kahle by Joi Ito.
• Hacking by Jeremy Keith.
• Paul Bausch by Paul Bausch.
• 3Com Campus in Massachusetts: 1999 by Jim Grisanzio.
• In front of Johann von Neumann-Haus by Anja Jentzsch.
• ROFLThing NYC, A Mini Conference on Internet Culture & Memes by Scott Beale.
• A photo of Mark Pilgrim by Tim Bray, taken at the ETech conference San Jose in March of 2006. by Tim Bray.
• why the lucky stiff + the foxes by Dave Thomas.
• Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby by Why the Lucky Stiff.
• Dive into HTML 5 by Mark Pilgrim.
• ...For the Whole World to See.
• Facebook Redesign by Ben Moss. Web Designer Depot.
• Twitter wants to play with the big boys by James Cox. Wall Street Journal.
• The Data Liberation Front Delivers Google Takeout
• Box by Michael Rowe, from the Noun Project.