Recommended Data Elements for Describing Archived Web Content

OCLC: “This is the third and final post reporting on the work of our OCLC Research Library Partnership Web Archiving Working Group. The first post summarizes our work overall and lists some of the conundrums that librarians and archivists have experienced when trying to describe web content. The second post goes into some detail about our two supplementary reports (a literature review and an analysis of harvesting tools). This post focuses on the primary report: Descriptive Metadata for Web Archiving: Recommendations of the OCLC Research Library Partnership Web Archiving Metadata Working Group (WAM). Here I’ll talk about our objectives in doing the work, list the criteria we used to scope the data element set, and briefly describe each of the 14 elements. WAM’s overall objective was to develop practices for creating consistent metadata that address the unique characteristics of websites and collections. More specifically, we sought to: Develop…

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