Missing Links: The Enduring Web

Autor: Marieke Guy, Alexander Ball, Michael Day
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2009
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Zdroj: International Journal of Digital Curation, Vol 4, Iss 2, Pp 135-143 (2009)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1746-8256
DOI: 10.2218/ijdc.v4i2.103
Popis: 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?
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