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Webarchives as historical sources 2a #160

Closed stefaniascagliola closed 3 years ago

stefaniascagliola commented 3 years ago

2.a The difference between the live web and the archived web| ? Min

The live web consists of any web page or website that you can access at this very moment. If you type the URL https://www.google.com, the home page of what is currently the world’s most popular search engine, into your web browser, the page will appear and you can immediately access the search engine. This is different from the archived web, which consists of web pages or websites that you can no longer access but whose information has been saved in the form of past versions of that web page or website. Without the archived web we would run the risk of web content disappearing from the accessible historical record entirely. This is why knowing both how to deal with web archives and how to ensure that web content is preserved are key for the historian’s profession.

For a basic understanding of what web archives are, start by reading three sections from the publication Using Web Archives in Research: An Introduction by Janne Nielsen (Aarhus: NetLab, 2016) (http://www.netlab.dk/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Nielsen_Using_Web_Archives_in_Research.pdf)

the image shows, but was too big, I have downsized it in Preview and loaded it again, but it is still too big ,

stefaniascagliola commented 3 years ago

I have resolved it by downsizing the image in Preview before uploading it to GitHub