Janet Kaiser on sun 16 jun 02
It has been a great worry of mine, that a great deal of web-based
papers and information is pretty ephemeral, especially for specialist
subjects such as ceramics. Here today, gone tomorrow for the main
part. Each time we change a site, alter information, etc. material is
lost. It was therefore extremely interesting to discover the web
archive project today.
Hewlett Packard, Google, Amazon and others sponsor/own it and web
sites are recorded... They apparently started in 1996 (although for
some strange reason ours is only listed from 1999 to October 2001, so
I will have to find out why we have suddenly become invisible to the
crawlers since then). Although it is a mind-boggling size at
XX-tetrabytes, it does have its limitations, however it solves the
problem of "dead" sites and those saved URLs you wanted to "view
later" nicely. There is not a search function, so you have to know the
URLs you want to access.
Just go to http://www.archive.org and try it out... I was amazed at
what I could "retrieve". Of course, some stuff is truly embarrassing.
Those early, long forgotten web pages one was so proud of, can come
back to haunt the webmasters, but on the whole I think this is an
excellent resource!
Janet Kaiser
The Chapel of Art / Capel Celfyddyd
Home of The International Potters' Path
8 Marine Crescent : Criccieth LL52 0EA : GB-Wales
Telephone: ++44 (0)1766-523570
URL: http://www.the-coa.org.uk
postbox@the-coa.org.uk
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