Description
Spur of the moment web archiving is near impossible for most libraries or individual scholars to manage. Most projects need to be planned out months or years in advance. This paper discusses an ongoing project to archive web traces of the April 2015 Nepal earthquake using the tool Archive-It. We discuss both the merits and challenges of this recent project, and suggest that the growing field of disaster management should incorporate web archiving methods of preparation along with more standard techniques of on the ground physical forms of preparation.
Archiving the 2015 Nepal earthquake
Spur of the moment web archiving is near impossible for most libraries or individual scholars to manage. Most projects need to be planned out months or years in advance. This paper discusses an ongoing project to archive web traces of the April 2015 Nepal earthquake using the tool Archive-It. We discuss both the merits and challenges of this recent project, and suggest that the growing field of disaster management should incorporate web archiving methods of preparation along with more standard techniques of on the ground physical forms of preparation.