Who Are the Archivists?

  • Resource users: By means of Web spiders, site mirroring, etc. The "outsiders".

  • Resource providers: By means of backup, replication, versioning, etc. The "insiders".

  • Web architects: "Archivability" by system design! Examples: NNTP and RFC 1036 (for newsgroup), RSS (for blog), and even XML (for self-descriptive data in general).