Internet Archive

• Autores: Marilyn Rackley
• Localización: Encyclopedia of library and information sciences / coord. por Marcia J. Bates, Vol. 4, 2010 (Information Management-Lesbian), págs. 2966-2976
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This entry describes the history of the Internet Archive from its founding in 1996 to its two billion page crawl in 2007. It describes the key individuals and organizations involved in the Archive�s work and the technological innovations that make the Archive possible, such as the ARC file format, Heritrix, and the Wayback Machine. The focus of this entry is primarily the Internet Archive�s Web archiving activities and collections, but it also briefly discusses the Archive�s other activities and the impact it has had on the fields of library and information science and the public in general