LibGuides: Archived Data (General): Web Archiving

What is web archiving?

"Web archiving is the process of gathering up data that has been recorded on the World Wide Web, storing it, ensuring the data is preserved in an archive, and making the collected data available for future research."

-- Niu, J. (March/April 2012). "An overview of web archiving." D-Lib Magazine, Vol. 8, 3/4.

DIY Web Archiving

DIY Web Archiving
DIY Web Archiving shows you why everyone should participate in preserving the things on the web they care about, and how anyone can do so (no special expertise required!).

More Tools and Resources

Web Archiving
This guide provides an introductory resource for web archiving and web crawling, and to highlight the work being done at Virginia Tech University Libraries.
Data Management Checklist
This checklist provides steps you can take to ensure the government data you use in your research remains accessible to you and others.
Awesome--datahoarding
Provides a list of tools for web harvesting and more.
GovDiff
Tool created by Jerome Paulos to show side-by-side changes in government websites.
Data Hoarding - Resources
From datahoarding.org, a list of resources to help you get started and help archival teams, or simply backup web content for your own personal use.