Hi, In short: This question highlights the importance of web archives, web archiving projects, and web archiving software. There are a number of projects out there from archive.org to the Library of Congress, but the basic premise is to both store the content in a verifiable form and in some cases host it with a trusted 3rd party (e.g. academic or memory institution). If you're unfamiliar with web archiving entirely and need a small number of pages archived, archive-it is a reasonable place to start: http://www.archive-it.org/learn-more. If you are looking to use a substantial number of pages you could consider setting up your own web crawler or commissioning the use of one at your institution (if they have one). Many of the larger universities are running web archives these days. -Laura On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Radhika <cyborgwati@gmail.com> wrote:
Depends on how you ground your context of research and frame it theoretically.
Can explain further off list.
Radhika Http://personal.bgsu.edu/~radhik
P.s. is also sometimes person x ;)
On Jul 26, 2012, at 4:22 PM, Maria Eronen <m85327@student.uwasa.fi> wrote:
Hi,
Would anyone know what are the criteria concerning internet material's validity? Is it common that you as a researcher will be asked to prove that the material you have collected from the internet is real. Since a lot of internet data disappears everyday, mere url addresses are not enough. Even html files can be modified after saving webpages.
I would appreciate if someone had time to answer.
Maria
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