Last week I explored
<http://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2015/11/16/how-much-of-the-internet-does-the-wayback-machine-really-archive/>
what precisely makes up the 20 year archive of the web held in the Internet
Archive’s Wayback Machine. Several of those findings have spawned
considerable discussion over the past week within the library and web
archival communities about what it means to archive the web, how much
documentation and metadata is enough, the tradeoffs in completeness vs
reach, and how to better engage with the myriad constituencies served by
web archives.

Why is it so important to understand what’s in our web archives? Perhaps
the most important reason is that as an infinite and ever-changing
landscape, it is simply impossible to archive the “entire internet” and
perfectly preserve every change to every page in existence. Web archives
are by their very nature an imperfect record of the web and constructing
them is an exercise in countless tradeoffs of how to preserve an infinite
stream with finite resources.


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