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“I’m not sure how feasible capture is”: Archivability as a dimension of website quality
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This paper presents the results of a study of the quality of archived websites using support tickets from the Internet Archive’s Archive-It (AIT) service, currently the most widely used web archiving service. The study uses grounded theory to create a definition of quality for archived websites that is composed of three dimensions: correspondence, relevance, and archivability. The focus of this paper is on website archivability, which I redefine as the intrinsic properties of a website that make it easier or more difficult to archive. I argue that archivability is a latent construct of information quality expressed by the manifest variables of correspondence and relevance, a finding not previously seen in the literature. The definition is independent of the technology currently in use to create web archives, making it suitable to a wide variety of platforms, preservation contexts, and situations. Furthermore, the paper describes how low levels of website archivability influences the quality of web archivesas historical records.
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- 2025-02-21
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- Conference/Workshop Presentation