on the web, research work proves ephemeral
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A8730-2003Nov23?language=printer By Rick Weiss Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, November 24, 2003; Page A08 On the Web, Research Work Proves Ephemeral Electronic Archivists Are Playing Catch-Up in Trying to Keep Documents
Interesting. Is there anyway to refer to some permanent "copy" of the web? I recall once I run into a copy of a web site I have run from 1996 to 1998 and that has been gone for several years now...I can't remember the name of the service I used...could it be Alexa.com? Anyone uses/recalls such a service? Luca Mr. Luca Meyer consumer research advisor http://www.lucameyer.com/en/
-----Messaggio originale----- Da: air-l-admin@aoir.org [mailto:air-l-admin@aoir.org] Per conto di Lokman Tsui Inviato: mercoledì 26 novembre 2003 9.56 A: air-l@aoir.org Oggetto: [Air-l] on the web, research work proves ephemeral
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By Rick Weiss Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, November 24, 2003; Page A08
On the Web, Research Work Proves Ephemeral Electronic Archivists Are Playing Catch-Up in Trying to Keep Documents From Landing in History's Dustbin
It was in the mundane course of getting a scientific paper published that physician Robert Dellavalle came to the unsettling realization that the world was dissolving before his eyes.
The world, that is, of footnotes, references and Web pages.
Dellavalle, a dermatologist with the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Denver, had co-written a research report featuring dozens of footnotes -- many of which referred not to books or journal articles but, as is increasingly the case these days, to Web sites that he and his colleagues had used to substantiate their findings.
Problem was, it took about two years for the article to wind its way to publication. And by that time, many of the sites they had cited had moved to other locations on the Internet or disappeared altogether, rendering useless all those Web addresses -- also known as uniform resource locators (URLs) -- they had provided in their footnotes.
"Every time we checked, some were gone and others had moved," said Dellavalle, who is on the faculty at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. "We thought, 'This is an interesting phenomenon itself. We should look at this.' " [.. see link above for rest of article .. ]
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Dear Luca, try http://www.archive.org/ for the waybackmashine to retrieve the material history of the web.. best nilz
Interesting. Is there anyway to refer to some permanent "copy" of the web? I recall once I run into a copy of a web site I have run from 1996 to 1998 and that has been gone for several years now...I can't remember the name of the service I used...could it be Alexa.com? Anyone uses/recalls such a service?
Luca
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At 10:58 Uhr +0100 27.11.2003, Nils Zurawski wrote:
Dear Luca,
try http://www.archive.org/ for the waybackmashine to retrieve the material history of the web..
Unfortunately, archive.org is very incomplete. But it seems like it's all we've got. Cheers, --u
Regarding methods for online research: Ulf-Dietrich Reips is too modest to recommend his own edited volume: Batinic, Reips & Bosnjak, Eds. (2002). Online Social Sciences. Seattle: Hogrefe & Huber. This is from his former email to AoIR: I would like to inform you that we published a book with the title "Online Social Sciences" (Batinic, Reips, & Bosnjak, Eds.). It contains 24 chapters about the possibilities to use the internet for data collection (e.g. online panels, personality assessment via internet, psychological experimenting on the world wide web, forms of research in MUDs, dialogue and interview-bots for the www). At the end of this email you`ll find a general introduction. Ever more researchers in the social sciences and market research are interested in using the benefits of the Internet to obtain data, and as this book shows online studies can address many questions that are asked by social scientists. This unique text provides comprehensive and up-to-date information, from the basics upwards, about online research methods, technical approaches to data collection, and the quality and limitations of data collected online. Included among the twenty-four chapters, written by leading online researchers from Europe and North America, are ones investigating the implementation of both reactive and non-reactive methods of data collection. The studies reported utilize Web-based questionnaires, Web experiments, observations of virtual worlds, case narrations, content analyses, and analysis of mailing-lists and other log data. In addition to featuring various fields of research in the online environment and reporting the results of such studies, this book also seeks to bridge a gap between Internet scientists in Europe and the US. In the past, researchers have tended to work on similar projects without collaboration: this book represents a joint effort among these researchers. Online research from an international perspective: the latest developments and techniques for social scientists and others interested in exploiting the opportunities the Internet provides. http://www.hhpub.com/books/isbn/0-88937-257-8.html Cheers, Denise ===== "The distance between here and there is growing; and getting even larger as we speak" (S. S. Hall) Denise N. Rall, PhD student, School of EnvironSciMgmt, Southern Cross Uni, Lismore, NSW, 2480 Australia Phone +61-2-6624-8627 Fax +61-2-6624-8637 Office (Tuesdays) (02) 6620 3577 Mob 0438 233 344 http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/rsm/staff/pages/drall/index.html __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/
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