I do not know how one should go about "properly" archiving the interwebthingie. but I do know that the Library of Congress is very interested in trying . . . that they've had a task group looking at the issue (along with a GOB of other new media-related questions) for about 3 years now . . . They are tasked with the virtually impossible job of archiving as much published stuff as they can. As one can imagine, a MAJOR stumbling block with the interwebthingie and the LoC are the IP rights associated with copying published stuff. And when I was there last March they weren't even talking about virtual worlds . . . On Aug 29, 2007, at 9:44 AM, Scott MacLeod wrote:
How would an organization like webarchive.org or someone archive all of Second Life, in the aggregate in real time, as well as the rest of the virtual worlds. Might one be able to create a record of all emerging virtual worlds from day 1? Is there a way to retrieve an online SL conversation with actions from years ago? Some virtual world web-page centric archives exist, but do other kinds of archives exist?
Scott
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