What makes a website "archivable"?

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    Karl Blumenthal

    Here are two additional resources that I like:

    Archivist and web developer Ashley Blewer just published this short explainer for the developer community, based on some example cases of less-than-perfectly archivable sites and how they might improve by following generally good web accessibility practice: Accessibility and Archivability.

    And if you or your donor aren't sure how accessible or archivable a website might be from a quick glance, you can always plug it into our colleague Vangelis Banos's Archive Ready tool, which scans sites for standards compliance and pinpoints some known issues when they are present.

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    Linda at Archive-It

    See also the Library of Congress's guide, Creating Preservable Websites. The Stanford University Libraries Archivability site is no longer accessible, but the LOC guide links to Web Archivability guidance that was updated and republished by Nicholas Taylor and based on Stanford's Archivability guidelines.

     

     

     

     

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