WEBCITING

WebCiting

"Webciting" is the process of citing a webpage or website with prior archiving to prevent linkrot, using a tool like WebCite, a tool specifically for scholarly authors, journal editors and publishers to permanently archive "on-demand" and retrieve cited Internet references (Eysenbach and Trudel, 2005). Rather than relying on a crawler who archives pages in a "random" fashion, authors who want to cite webpages in a scholarly article can initiate the archiving process using a bookmarklet or by simply entering the URL which needs to be archived in the WebCite interface.

Web archivists generally archive all types of web content including HTML web pages, style sheets, JavaScript, images, and video. They also archive metadata about the collected resources such as access time, MIME type, and content length. This metadata is useful in establishing authenticity and provenance of the archived collection.

References

• Gunther Eysenbach and Mathieu Trudel (2005). "Going, going, still there: using the WebCite service to permanently archive cited web pages". Journal of Medical Internet Research 7 (5).

See also

• WebCite
• Digital preservation
• Uniform Resource Locator
• Web archiving
• Linkrot