Web Archiving

This book will focus on the Web as a publishing medium, which was its first aim, and makes it the largest content information repository ever. Public Information available on the Internet, mainly on the Web, is larger than information distributed on any other media today. Strategic business information and communication is now also usually accessed and operated thought internet/extranet/intranet services.The raw nature of Web content, the unpredictable remote changes that can affect it, and the growth of database-driven web site make usual archiving and back-up procedures inefficient to preserve Web material. Specific archiving procedures to preserve this content for mid and long term are hardly ever in place in most organization. The organization of this book is delineated by three stages (building, using, and preserving). Each chapter is intended to provide first a detailed presentation of existing methods and available technology, often inspired from other domains but adapted to the specific topic of Web archiving.