Journal of Educational Media and Library Sciences


Vol. 46 No. 1 , Pages 55 - 80 , 2008

Discussion on Web Archives Using Topic Maps (Article written in Chinese)

Shien-Chiang YU

Abstract

Web resources have already become the present important information channel, its pluralism abundant content to offer people for information retrieval and academia to study the needs of consulting. But web resources not only grow up quickly, but also disappear fast. Web resources will probably be unable to be utilized again because of factors such as server shutdown, revision, etc. at any time. Web resources are among the most import human societal information, including visual design art, style, and included various kinds of resources in these web pages. Due to the fragile characteristics of digital information, this study aims to address strategic, methodological and practical issues in archiving and managing digital preservation. Because the webpage may be described with the HTML edition and version, the support of the browser and long-term preservation must be considered, including standardization, format, data utilization, mining and restructured employment in the future. Based on these requirements, the main purpose of this study is analysis in probing the solution for long-term preservation of web resources; adopting the standardized method; and analyzing composition components and characteristics of web resources according to the perspective of the data structure. This study adopted the migration method to reorganize the structure but keep primitive information of web resources according to the Topic Maps metadata, in order to offer web resources integrity, management and application effectively with the whole information content.

Keywords: web resources; long term preservation; topic maps; webpage migration

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