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Title:

Permanence on the Web

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Organizer:
Fred Benenson, Creative Commons
Description:
Hard drives fail, DVDs crack, and jump drives get lost. We can store our data in the cloud, but AOL just deleted Geocities and now Kodak is threatening to remove your albums if you don't pay them. Sites like Archive.org and Google's cache represent a partial solution to the problem, but how do we encourage the preservation of a permanent web? What are the laws and ethical issues involved with archiving other people's content?
Questions
Answered:
  1. How do we encourage the preservation of a permanent web?
  2. Is permanent preservation of the web possible?
  3. Is permanent preservation of the web legal?
  4. Who is working on preserving the web?
  5. Why is preserving the web important?
  6. What have been some failures of not preserving the web?
  7. What are the technical requirements for archiving the web?
  8. What are the technologies that can preserve massive amounts of data for hundreds of years?
  9. What are some succeses in preserving the web?
  10. How can web developers do their part in helping preserve the web?
Level:
Intermediate
Category:
Cloud Storage / Delivery, Community / Online Community, Content Management, History of Technology, Licensing / Fair Use / Copyright
Type:
Panel
Event:
Interactive 2010
Christine Lu
on 17/8/09
Very useful questions. I just deleted my Facebook account for a fresh start. Fully realizing that I zapped 2 years worth of partial existence on the web but they'll still probably keep the data or info in some form? Not sure so looking forward to this.

Hope you can take a look at my panel on Disruptive Entrepreneurship and give it a vote if you like the idea as I'm a big supporter of Creative Commons and how its positively inspiring much needed disruption in certain areas of business.

http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/3256
Ben Moskowitz
on 17/8/09
I love how this topic has privacy implications, archival implications, and Orwellian implications.

I'm also looking forward to this book:
http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8981.html
ryan junell
on 4/9/09
go fred!
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on 16/10/09
Great idea! I hope it gets picked!
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on 18/11/09
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I love how this topic has privacy implications, archival implications, and Orwellian implications.
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on 28/11/09
Very nice...
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