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May 21, 2007, 03:42 PM ET
Avoiding a Digital 'Dark Age'
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," says Marc Weber, co-founder of the World Wide Web History Center. "We could end up with far less than in the age of paper."
The center, whose staff includes several collections specialists at U.S. colleges, is now looking for assistance from archivists in Canada, reports the Canadian Press. Plenty of those archivists might be eager to help, but they face a tricky task: It may be easy to freeze some relatively static Web pages in time, but it's far more difficult to figure out how to preserve valuable material from ever-evolving sites like Facebook and MySpace. --Brock Read
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