{"id":38335,"date":"2016-07-29T14:33:40","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T21:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=38335"},"modified":"2016-07-29T14:40:35","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T21:40:35","slug":"the-national-library-of-ireland-is-archiving-the-irish-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=38335","title":{"rendered":"The National Library of Ireland is Archiving the Irish Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"The Reading Room of the National Library of Ireland\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/The-National-Library-of-Ireland-Reading-Room_250pw.jpg\" alt=\"The-National-Library-of-Ireland-Reading-Room_250pw\" width=\"250\" height=\"131\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-38336\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fascinating&#8230; I had not spent much time thinking about the archiving of all these internet postings we do. The following excerpt is from a good article posted July 22, 2016 at <em>The Irish Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With about 10 million objects from nearly 1,000 years of Irish history, archiving the internet isn\u2019t the first thing that jumps to mind about the National Library of Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>Nestled in the centre of Kildare Street since 1890, the Library\u2019s treasured materials constitute the most comprehensive collection of Irish documentary material on the planet. But what of its future? If, say, our distant descendants wanted to research what life was like for us all way back in 2016 \u2013 say February\u2019s general election, or even last year\u2019s Marriage Equality referendum, with all their social media feeds in-tow \u2013 internet archives will likely be their default option.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow we are collecting in the National Library is obviously changing, but it\u2019s the same principles,\u201d says Maria Ryan, a web archivist in the Digital Collections Department. \u201cWhat newspapers were 20 years ago, websites are now. So we\u2019ve recognised that need to collect and preserve that information for the people of Ireland, but in an ever-evolving form.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/culture\/heritage\/the-national-library-online-and-on-the-shelves-1.2731092#.V5TWgsYL080.twitter\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/researchbuzz.me\/2016\/07\/25\/legal-research-internet-security-wordpress-more-monday-buzz-july-25-2016\/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+researchbuzz%2Fmain+%28ResearchBuzz%29\" target=\"_blank\">ResearchBuzz<\/a> for the heads-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fascinating&#8230; I had not spent much time thinking about the archiving of all these internet postings we do. The following excerpt is from a good article posted July 22, 2016 at The Irish Times. With about 10 million objects from <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=38335\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  The National Library of Ireland is Archiving the Irish Internet<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[424,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-imaging","category-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38335"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38342,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38335\/revisions\/38342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}