Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Click here to sign up for SAGE Journal Email Alerts today!

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Journal of Information Science
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in Web of Science
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Web of Science (1)
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Lor, P.
Right arrow Articles by Britz, J. J.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

A moral perspective on South–North web archiving

Peter Lor

Department of Information Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Johannes J. Britz

Department of Information Science, University of Pretoria, South Africabritz{at}sois.uwm.edu

This article reflects, from a moral perspective, on South-North archiving. It is argued that web pages, though trivial and ephemeral in nature, reflect contemporary culture and are as important in this context as printed material. As such, web pages should provide raw data for future scholars and should be archived. The archiving of web pages created in the developing countries (the South) raises some vexing questions such as: Is it legal to archive web sites? Does one need permission from the creator of the web site? To what extent should access to archived web sites be controlled? These questions are addressed in the paper. A moral framework based on social justice and human rights is proposed, that can be used to guide web archiving.

Journal of Information Science, Vol. 30, No. 6, 540-549 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/0165551504047925
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Journal of Information ScienceHome page
P. J. Lor, J. Britz, and H. Watermeyer
Everything, for ever? The preservation of South African websites for future research and scholarship
Journal of Information Science, February 1, 2006; 32(1): 39 - 48.
[Abstract] [PDF]