Just because it might interest someone (and because I didn't know it's this easy), I'm passing along the message below.
Amalyah Keshet Head of Image Resources & Copyright Management The Israel Museum, Jerusalem Chair, MCN IP SIG --------------------------------------------------------- Users can now use The Wayback Machine to archive just about any web page at ANY time. This is a relatively new feature and like the Wayback Machine itself ... In other words, users no longer have to wait for the Wayback crawler to visit a page and permanently store a copy. Now, any user can do themselves when they want, as often as they want. Getting the job done is easy. Simply copy the url of the page you want to save (some call this "freezing" the page at a specific moment in time") and paste it into the "Save Page Now" box on the Wayback homepage. http://archive.org/web/ Within a couple of seconds you will be given a direct and permanent link to the page FROZEN at the specific moment you pressed the "save page" button. That's it. Not only is this useful but it brings the topic about saving and archiving what you find since the web is so ephemeral. The way a page looks and the content it contains might look different on Wed. vs. how it looked on Monday. Heck, the page/content might also be totally removed. p.s. If you want to take the time, this bookmarklet (it's also free) makes saving a web page using Wayback a 100% point and click operation. Just drag to your toolbar. http://marklets.com/Save%20Page%20to%20Wayback%20Machine.aspx p.p.s. Probably also worth noting that some sites block the Wayback crawler from archiving a page... An example, try saving a page from WashingtonPost.com and see what happens. Gary D. Price, MLIS Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal's INFOdocket.com Co-Founder and Editor, FullTextReports.com Information Industry Analyst Librarian http://INFOdocket.com http://FullTextReports.com ----------------------------- [Insert your disclaimer here] -----------------------------
