Counting the uncountable: statistics for web archives
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to describe the aims and contents of the ISO Report ISO/TR 14873.
Design/methodology/approach
For more than a decade, libraries have started to “collect the web”. National libraries in particular select, collect and store publications and websites from their national domain, seeing this as a task similar to traditional legal deposit. The collection policies and collecting methods vary, so that it is difficult to compare the quantity and quality of the respective web archives.
Findings
In order to harmonize the evaluation of web archives, ISO TC 46 SC 8 has produced a Technical Report that standardizes the terminology and statistics and offers tested indicators for assessing the quality of web archiving.
Originality/value
This paper describes the shortly to be published ISO/TR 14873, a potentially vital guide to harmonize web archive collection internationally.
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Citation
Oury, C. and Poll, R. (2013), "Counting the uncountable: statistics for web archives", Performance Measurement and Metrics, Vol. 14 No. 2, pp. 132-141. https://doi.org/10.1108/PMM-05-2013-0014
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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