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A survey on web archiving initiatives
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Web archiving has been gaining interest and recognized importance
for modern societies around the world. However, for web archivists it is frequently
difficult to demonstrate this fact, for instance, to funders. This study
provides an updated and global overview of web archiving. The obtained results
showed that the number of web archiving initiatives significantly grew after
2003 and they are concentrated on developed countries.We statistically analyzed
metrics, such as, the volume of archived data, archive file formats or number of
people engaged. Web archives all together must process more data than any web
search engine. Considering the complexity and large amounts of data involved
in web archiving, the results showed that the assigned resources are scarce. A
Wikipedia page was created to complement the presented work and be collaboratively
kept up-to-date by the community
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digital preservation