Missing Links: The Enduring Web
Citation
. 2009. ‘Missing Links: The Enduring Web.’ International Journal of Digital Curation 4:2 (October). 135-143. ISSN: 1746-8256. DOI: 10.2218/ijdc.v4i2.103
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Abstract
The Web runs at risk. Our generation has witnessed a revolution in human communications on a trajectory similar to that of the origins of the written word and language itself. Early Web pages have an historical importance comparable with prehistoric cave paintings or proto-historic pressed clay ciphers. They are just as fragile. The ease of creation, editing and revising gives content a flexible immediacy: ensuring that sources are up to date and, with appropriate concern for interoperability, content can be folded seamlessly into any number of presentation layers. How can we carve a legacy from such complexity and volatility?
[Marieke Guy, Alex Ball and Michael Day report on a one-day workshop held on Tuesday 21st July 2009 at the British Library, looking at the precisely these issues.]