Matchbox labels. Internet Archive: Wayback Machine. Mummify: Make a Permanent Copy of Anything Online. Step Short Folkestone creates digital archive of 42,000 names. Step Short has developed an online collection of 42,000 names of soldiers, nurses and other individuals who passed through the town on their way to the Western Front between 1914 and 1919.
Step Short - based in Folkestone - is a charity marking the Centenary of the First World War. Folkestone was a major departure point for British and Commonwealth troops destined for the Western Front during the First World War. From camps nearby and from its railway stations, troops would march down Slope Road, today re-named the Road of Remembrance, to the harbour. Weighed down with rifle, helmet and kit, soldiers were given the order to ‘step short’ as they negotiated the gradient. Online archive The 42,000 names which have been digitised were listed in eight visitors' books which were kept at the Harbour Canteen, where many of the millions who boarded troop ships stopped before their final departure to the Western Front. Source: Step Short press release. Anatomy of a Web Archive. The following is a guest post by Nicholas Taylor, Web Archiving Service Manager for Stanford University Libraries.
I’m inclined to blame the semantic flexibility of the word “archive” for the fact that someone with no previous exposure to web archives might variously suppose that they are: the result of saving web pages from the browser, institutions acting as repositories for web resources, a navigational feature of some websites allowing for browsing of past content, online storage platforms imagined to be more durable than the web itself, or, simply, “the Wayback Machine.” For as many policies and practices guide cultural heritage institutions’ approaches to web archiving, however, the “web archives” that they create and preserve are remarkably consistent.
What are web archives, exactly? WARC, West African Research Center, by Robin, on Flickr Anatomically, a WARC or ARC file can be thought of as a single document made up of a series of concatenated records. Specialcollectionssocialmedia [licensed for non-commercial use only] / Tumblr. Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine. Prisbrey Bottle Village Collection. University of Saskatchewan Archives - Marine Invertebrate Larvae - Main. Digital Projects - University of Saskatchewan. University Archives & Special Collections Exhibitions and Digital Projects > Digital Projects The Fine Arts and Photography Gender and Sexuality History and Politics Literature Native Studies Northern Studies Saskatchewan and Prairie Studies Science and the Environment Society and Culture.
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