online archives
Web-based record collections
Online archives are digital collections of documents, records, media, or other materials accessible through the internet.
They range from institutional repositories preserving historical records to personal collections of old emails or social media posts.
Unlike physical archives, online archives allow instant searching and remote access: The university's online archives contain manuscripts dating back centuries.
The term also describes features that store past content, like a blog's archive of previous posts.
- databasesOrganized electronic information collections
- catalogingSystematic organization into records
- search engineTool for locating websites
- metadataDescriptive information about content
- indexingSystematic organization for retrieval
copyright law · digitization · text files · born-digital · cloud storage · ephemera · open access · public domain · digital libraries · versioning · Wayback Machine · images · emulation · wayback · migration · privacy policies · collections · primary sources
- digital contentfiles, blog posts, data, digital music, videos
- digital resourceswebsites, databases, digital libraries, e-books, e-resources
- digital mediawebsites, films, ebook, content creation, movies
- scholarshipacademic papers, publications, research papers, theories, dissertations
online archiveslive streams
Real-time online broadcasts
live broadcasts · disappearing messages · breaking news · current events · live data