web archiving

Process of data preservation done by collecting and saving web content

EntityQ2062069

Subclass of: digital preservation
, data archiving

Overview

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Web archiving is the process of collecting, preserving, and providing access to material from the World Wide Web. The aim is to ensure that information is preserved in an archival format for research and the public. Web archivists typically employ automated web crawlers to capturing the massive amount of information on the Web.

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21 statements · 19% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Used by: archive.today
Wayback Machine
Class of object(s) of occurrence: web page

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17 identifiers linking web archiving across the web's reference databases

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statements

19%

externally sourced

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AIDB. (2026). web archiving (Q2062069). Retrieved from https://aidb.si/e/web-archiving-Q2062069