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Agreed, don't focus too much on preserving the presentation for an online newspaper. The text and images are important, but the layout isn't so important. -Wilhelmina Randtke On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Kyle Banerjee <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > IMO, there are many web archiving situations where it is more appropriate > to just focus on the content rather than the manifestation of the content. > Just as you wouldn't expect a 1995 article from the NYT to be displayed as > the website was in 1995 or an article in an online database to actually > appear like it originally appeared online, it's the content rather than the > skin that's relevant in the case of a newspaper. If you make sure it's in a > format that can be migrated forward and added to standalone or union > systems that provide access to this sort of stuff, you'll be fine. > > kyle > > > On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 8:48 AM, Kathryn Frederick (Library) < > [log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > I'm trying to develop a strategy for preserving issues our school's > online > > newspaper. Creating a WARC file of the content seems straightforward, but > > how will that content fair long-term? Also, how is the WARC served to an > > end-user? Is there some other method I should look at? > > Thanks in advance for any advice! > > Kathryn > > >