June 1, 2007
Archivists Are Warned of Web-Induced 'Dark Age' for Historians
If archivists are not diligent in preserving material that resides only on the Web, we could be living in "a dark age for future historians."
That's the view of Marc Weber, co-founder of the World Wide Web History Center. "We could end up with far less than in the age of paper," he says.
The center, whose staff includes several collections specialists at American colleges, is now looking for assistance from archivists in Canada, according the Canadian Press. Plenty of those
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