Archiving Web Sites for Preservation and Access: MODS, METS and MINERVA
Authors:
Rebecca Guenther a;
Leslie Myrick b
| Affiliations: | a Network Development and MARC Standards Office of the Library of Congress, Washington, DC |
| b University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA |
DOI:
10.1300/J201v04n01_08
Publication Frequency:
4 issues per year
Subjects:
Archiving;
Librarianship;
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Abstract
Born-digital material such as archived Web sites provides unique challenges in ensuring access and preservation. This article examines some of the technical challenges involved in harvesting and managing Web archives as well as metadata strategies to provide descriptive, technical, and preservation related information about archived Web sites, with the Library of Congress' Minerva project as an example. It explores a possible data model for archived Web sites, including discussion of a proposed METS profile for Web sites to enable the packaging of different forms of metadata. In addition it explores how the work on metadata for long-term preservation undertaken by the PREMIS working group can be applied to Web archiving.
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| Keywords: MODS; Metadata Object Description Schema; METS; Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard; Web archiving; metadata; digital preservation and access |

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