Educational Technology

By Jie Jenny Zou, Chronicle of Higher Ed Wired Campus

Researchers at Old Dominion U. in Virginia are trying to figure out what percentage of the Web is archived by sampling from the four different sources.  Researchers at Old Dominion University in Virginia are trying to figure out how much of the public Web is archived and who is storing it, as part of a larger effort to preserve the digital record. Michael L. Nelson, a computer-science professor, has been working with professors and students since September to determine how much of the Web’s history has been preserved in Internet databases around the world.

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