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What does it mean for a project to be "archive ready"?

Martin Holmes edited this page Nov 30, 2016 · 3 revisions

We are not alone in identifying the issues around long-term archiving of digital projects; this discussion at Berkeley is typical of many such initiatives. On this page, we will collectively work out what exactly "archive-ready" means for the purposes of Endings:

  • functional without a server infrastructure to support it
  • dependent only on existing standards with massive support (HTML5, JavaScript, CSS, XML)
  • harvestable by archiving tools
  • functional when harvested and served up by an archive browser such as the Wayback Machine
  • search-engine-friendly (interesting and difficult)
  • metadata-rich, preferably in multiple formats
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