Our next tech and law speaker will be William Moner of the School of Communications on Wednesday, September 30 @ 12:35pm in room 107 at the law school.
William’s talk is entitled “Smoke without mirrors: the Web’s great vanishing act. ” Below is the abstract:
The World Wide Web’s hypertext link system provides a significant material basis for information vital to an increasingly digitized culture. This hypertext network requires stable domain ownership and reliable server-based resources to store and preserve materials of historical significance in digital network environments. When resources vanish from the public Web, the information network becomes less reliable as a source of verifiable scholarship, evidence of events, and instances of cultural memory. As digitized and digital materials proliferate, questions arise regarding the method of collecting and preserving sources of information on the Web. In this talk, I will discuss efforts by Web preservation enthusiasts to archive Geocities.com and other sites of historical significance, and I discuss both the value of this information and the restrictions imposed by the U.S. legal regime that influences and determines how Web sites can be archived, preserved, accessed, and used by an interested public.
More information about the series can be found below and here.
Reminder: as all members of the Elon community are invited, please feel free to forward this information to anyone that you think might be interested in attending. Note: those who would like to attend but can’t make it to the law school will be able to live-stream the discussion.
Melissa Duncan
Melissa Duncan is a double Elon alum (B.A., 2006 and J.D., 2009). She serves as Director of Career & Student Development at Elon Law. Email her at mduncan6@elon.edu or stop by 110C to say hello!
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