Missing Links: The Enduring Web

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 ciph...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Marieke Guy, Alexander Ball, Michael Day
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh 2009-10-01
Series:International Journal of Digital Curation
Online Access:http://localhost:8032/ijdc/article/view/103
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Summary: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?
ISSN:1746-8256