::fibreculture:: internet archives

[Tom Worthington]

At 9/08/03 11:05, Ned Rossiter wrote:
>... the Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org/
>
>And I was wondering if anyone out there is doing internet archaelogy work. ...

There is also the National Library of Australia's Pandora Archive 
<http://pandora.nla.gov.au/>. This has much less in it, but is orientated 
to Australian culture and indexed by topic.

I turned to Pandora when SOCOG deleted the Sydney Olympic web site. That 
was after SOCOG had been found to have engaged in unlawful conduct by 
providing a web site which was to a significant extent inaccessible to the 
blind <http://www.tomw.net.au/2001/bat2001.html#maguire>.

The Internet Archive is handy when the particular version of a web site 
disappears. As an example in a web design course I ask ANU students to do 
an analysis of the Athens Olympics web site, as it appeared on a particular 
day.




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