Web Archiving Blog Posts

Between August 2012 and September 2015 web archive curators wrote a series of blog posts with the purpose of revealing interesting archival content as well as discussing the work involved in curating Australia's web archives.

The blog posts are published as part of the NLA's broader blogging activity and those relating to web archiving listed below.

List of web archiving blog posts

15 years on from the Sydney Olympics
by Russell Latham, 29 September 2015.

The Australian Government Web Archive
by Paul Koerbin, 11 February 2015.

Archiving Floriade - preserving ephemeral events
by Paul Koerbin, 25 September 2014.

2013 Federal Election Campaign web collecting - collecting election material in an online world
by Russell Latham, 11 June 2014.

To know, to utter, to argue ... and to archive and access (What place does archived online content have in social media's political discourse)
by Paul Koerbin, 27 May 2014.

Web archiving - an antidote to 'present shock' (The importance of archiving content from a medium - the web - so focused upon the present)
by Paul Koerbin, 18 March 2014.

Archiving online election campaigns (Explaining the process behind how we preserve Australia's election websites)
by Paul Koerbin, 9 August 2013.

Web archiving in a fast moving world (The tricky task of capturing websites while the news is hot)
by Russell Latham, 2 July 2013.

Queensland regional festivals (A guest post on how we have archived Queensland's celebrations)
by Maxine Fisher of the State Library of Queensland, 23 May 2013.

How fast is the web archiving? (Describing how quickly we can archive content when needed)
by Paul Koerbin, 10 May 2013.

What is the oldest website? (If a long-dead site is restored, does it still count?)
by Paul Koerbin, 3 May 2013.

Archiving the protest site (One of the interesting sub-sets of websites we collect)
by Russell Latham, 18 January 2013.

Archiving the history of history on-line (Archiving websites about history lets us preserve the new ways history is being researched and recorded)
by Caitlin Prescott, 4 December 2012.

Welcome back to the web. Reviving the 'lost' website jeff.com.au
by Paul Koerbin, 29 November 2012.

Bali bombing ten years on (Preserving the commemorations of this important event)
by Russell Latham, 12 October 2012.

Taking the web archive off the virtual shelf (A guest post about presenting archived websites in a library exhibition)
by Maxine Fisher of the State Library of Queensland, 11 October 2012.

Keating redesigned - and the lengths to which web archive curators (sometimes) go! (Excitement was tempered slightly by a 404 page not found error)
by Paul Koerbin, 24 September 2012.

Out of service? Cablog's last fare ... (Taxi driver's blog captured in PANDORA)
by Chris Turner, 12 September 2012.

Looking for jeff.com.au (Not everything that appears on the web leaves a trace)
by Paul Koerbin, 24 August 2012.

Robert Hughes (1938-2012) - 'Our Shared Future' republic speech
by Paul Koerbin, 8 August 2012.

PANDORA Archive reveals earliest collection of Olympic Games websites
by Paul Koerbin, 2 August 2012.

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