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WebCite: An On-Demand Internet Archive

August 26, 2008 by stuart | 2 Comments

As someone who studies Internet culture, one of my biggest problems is “link rot,” or broken links.  I’m a big fan of the Internet Archive, but they are usually six to eight months behind on even the most popular sites.  I also applaud sites like Wikipedia for providing stable version histories so that I can point to a specific revision of a page.  However, for all other websites, the only option is self-archiving, which is technically difficult and fraught with problems.  What I have found incredibly useful is WebCite, a free webpage archiving service that fills in this gap.

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Posted in: Blog Posts | Tagged: academia, archive, citation, html, internet, internet archive, metadata, reference

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I'm a Ph.D student at UC-Berkeley's School of Information who studies knowledge production and the technology that supports it.

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