Now What You Put on the Internet Really Could Last Forever

Now What You Put on the Internet Really Could Last Forever. Ryan Steadman. Observer Culture. January 5, 2016.
     Digital art institution Rhizome has won a two-year grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to continue development of Webrecorder, a newly developed archiving tool for the web. The tool, Webrecorder, which will be free to the public, provides the ability to capture and play back dynamic web content and thus improve digital social memory. An open source version of Webrecorder is already available at webrecorder.io, where users are invited to build their own archive. However,  "further development is needed to make it into the comprehensive archive Rhizome would like to build."

Related:

• The Digital Traces of User-generated Content: How Social Media Data May Become the Historical Sources of the Future
• The Many Uses of Rhizome’s New Social Media Preservation Tool.

 

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