Week Eleven – Archiving the Web ?

This week we looked at archiving tools available to use to archive collections, but a lot of these tools could be used to archive other things around the web.

The most useful tool I found was Wayback Machine, a site that allows you to access a bookmarked page as it was the time it was saved. I can see this being a really useful took for my journalism units as often I want to save the top stories for the day if something significant has happened, or view articles before further changes are made they have been updated or edited. Carrying on with journalism and media, this tool would be fantastic to capture news sites stories with impact and significance such as an election or an Olympic triumph. This would be the modern day equivalent to saving the front page of a newspaper for archival purposes, creating a snapshot of a moment.

Jacinta?

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