Dear David,
There are some good examples referenced in Richard Ovenden's speech to mark the 10th anniversary of the DPC . This is reported online at:
http://www.dpconline.org/newsroom/latest-news/918-dpc-marks-landmark-10th-anniversary?q=tenth+anniversary
On a slightly more whimsical note in 2009 the DPC nominated '12 tweets of Christmas' partly to highlight the sorts of challenges we face in long term access to complex online content. We've reviewed the list at the start of January each year and the last time we looked 2 had disappeared entirely, one was not functioning as designed and the fourth was deleted but was recovered from the Internet Archive. The interesting thing is that the technically complex material - which you might think was high risk - has survived so far while the stuff that's vanished has simply gone through apparent neglect. See: http://www.dpconline.org/newsroom/latest-news/951-the-ghosts-of-christmas-past-12-tweets-of-christmas-highlight-online-link-rot-and-need-for-web-archives
All best wishes,
William
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Subject: Sites gone and not archived
Dear all,
Thinking about digital archives has made me wonder about examples of websites which are no longer online and whose content has not been picked up by the Internet Archive (for example if the content was behind a pay wall).
An example is (was) the Kenyan grey literature site kwetu.net.
Accounts of any other examples gratefully received (I will collate for those interested).
best wishes
davidz
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http://www.mambila.info/ The Virtual Institute of Mambila Studies
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http://about.me/david.zeitlyn
Google Scholar profile including h-index:
http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=lYK4auAAAAAJĘ
Oxford's open online anthropology journal: JASO online.
http://www.isca.ox.ac.uk/publications/JASO/
Zeitlyn, D. 2012. Anthropology In and of the Archives: Possible Futures and Contingent Pasts. Archives as Anthropological Surrogates. Annual Review of Anthropology 41, 461-80.
DOI:10.1146/annurev-anthro-092611-145721
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