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Websites as primary sources
What are primary sources? Historical primary sources Current primary sources Why archive web sites?
What is a primary source?
Primary sources are the raw materials of history — original documents and objects which were created at the time under study. They are different from secondary sources, accounts or interpretations of events created by someone without firsthand experience.
Historical primary sources
How can we learn how people in the past lived?
What evidence did they leave?
April 14th 1/2 past 10 o'clock P.M.O, fatal day. O, noble Victim. Treason has done its worst. The President has been Assassinated. It has just been announced at my door that he was shot a half hour ago at Fords Theatre. Is it possible? I have just come from near the scene, it is too True. 11 o'clock P.M.
What are some current primary sources?
How do we record our thoughts? How do we tell our stories to each
other? How do we correspond with each
other? What evidence will we leave for future
study?
What should be saved? Why?
How will we understand what was important to people of the past?
Pat Canterbury showing albums in which he has collected stickers and patches from mining companies he has worked for.
Photos by a commercial "wanderer" through New York and Pennsylvania. Portraits, landscapes, train and Gettysburg
Family Photo Album
Why archive and save Web sites?
"I knew that websites changed periodically, but I didn't realize that once they are changed, they can never be viewed as they once were unless we archive them"
-student participant
What should be saved? Why?
How will future scholars understand what was important to us?
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