Volume 62 (2015), Edition 3-4

Now that texts are no longer based on printed characters buton ephemeral alphanumerical code in electronic form instead,there has been a corresponding shift in the nature of the risksand opportunities attached to the collection mandate of...

Since 2006 the legal mandate of the German National Libraryhas also included the collection of media publications which canbe retrieved by the public in non-physical form. Such a mandateis open to interpretation, and indeed both the handling of...

The World Wide Web is well established as a global informationand communication medium. New technologies regularly comealong which expand the forms of use and permit even inexperiencedusers to publish content or take part in discussions. For...

The collection and archiving of websites has developed into anew sphere of activity since the end of the 1990s in various culture-preservation institutions worldwide. The basic necessity ofweb archiving is explored in the introduction to the...

The Web itself is international, meaning that comprehensive webarchiving can only succeed if conducted on the basis of internationalcooperation. Broad-based web archiving is carried outabove all by the US organisation Internet Archive and by...