Re: web snapshot

From: Michael M. Butler (butler@comp-lib.org)
Date: Thu Jan 04 2001 - 21:21:35 MST


It's a good idea, but it's a Red Queen's Race. God's own data firehose.

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Brent Allsop wrote:
>
> Spike Jones <spike66@attglobal.net> posted:
>
> > You know, a technique for archiving the entire content of the web on
> > any given day in history would be valuable as all hell.
>
> Absolutely!
>
> There are at least some orgs pushing in this direction.
> <URL: http://www.webhistory.org/> for example. They claim:
>
> > the Project has inevitably produced the largest archive of Web
> > source material in existence.
>
> I think there should be much more effort going into this kind
> of archival of all history, not just the web.
>
> Brent Allsop



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