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Archiving Web-Published Materials
a particular government agency report would be well-served by ready access to the reports
themselves rather than accessing them from within an annual capture of the agency's web-site.
Acquisition
All participants were generally concerned with the frequency with which web-published
materials change. Survey respondents identified three important considerations for collection
building practices:
1. Assessing the change rate of the source materials
2. Establishing the interval at which collection materials will be recaptured
3. Articulating criteria for retention of earlier versions
In addition, some participants familiar with creating collections of web sites recommended
curators evaluate material types and formats in web sites prior to acquisition. If done manually,
this can be a daunting endeavor; automated tools are needed to support this type of analysis.
Authenticity
While each user may assess authenticity differently, many users need and most would
want some authority to provide an assurance of the authenticity of web-published materials in a
web archive. Survey respondents were concerned that multiple versions of source materials
captured at different points in time and multiple formats of the same object might pose a threat to
the authenticity of those materials. Amplifying this concern, focus group participants indicated
that assigning versions and dates to captured web-published materials is a critical area a web
archive should address. Additionally, many researchers would like an archive to identify the
location of original source materials. It is clear that an effective archive must have policies and
practices in place to address these authenticity concerns. Likewise, archives containing copies of
government documents must have a means to authenticate the reliability of source documents.Published 2008
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Murray, Kathleen R. & Hsieh, Inga K. Archiving Web-Published Materials: A Needs Assessment of Librarians, Researchers, and Content Providers, article, 2008; [New York, New York]. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29322/m1/21/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .