n.the process of collecting, preserving, and providing enduring access to web contentNational Archives 2011, 5Web archiving is the process of collecting websites and the information that they contain and preserving them in an archive.Antracoli et al. 2014, 157Web archiving, the complex process of harvesting Web content and then preserving it for the enduring future, is an attempt to address this digital preservation challenge. Web archivists aim to capture and preserve the dynamic and functional aspects of Web pages—including active links, embedded media, and animation—while also maintaining the context and relationships between files.Kelly 2017, 10Web scraping and web archiving tools that were invented for creating social media and web archives may be an option for archives attempting to harvest and preserve their own institution’s social media and web content (as is the case of ArchiveSocial and Archive-It), or for collecting social media content not necessarily generated by their institution using hashtags, usernames, or other search entries (example services include Lentil, ScraperWiki, Social Feed Manager, Twarc, and TAGS).IIPC 2020aWeb archiving is the process of collecting portions of the World Wide Web, preserving the collections in an archival format, and then serving the archives for access and use.IIPC 2020bThe intent of web archiving is to preserve the original form of the harvested content without modification. To achieve this goal the tools, standards, policies and best practices need to be in place that will ensure the management of web archives over time.
