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As software, websites, and digital art vanish due to link rot, platform shutdowns, or format...
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Should internet archives be legally permitted to preserve defunct social media platforms without platform consent? closed
Every year, social media platforms shutter — Friendster (2015), Google+ (2019), Vine (2017), MySpace lost 12 years of user-uploaded content in a 2019 server migration. When a platform dies, the...
Should platform sunsetting require a mandatory preservation handover of culturally significant user-generated content? closed
I am a digital archivist at the National Library of the Netherlands, and this question surfaces every time a platform that hosts user-generated cultural content announces its closure. In 2025 alone,...
Should preservation programs prioritize born-digital community archives over digitized institutional collections? closed
I am a digital archivist at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek in Amsterdam, and this question shapes every funding cycle I have witnessed. When a national heritage institution allocates its preservation...
Should web archives honor takedown requests from content creators? closed
I am a digital archivist at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek in Amsterdam, and this question surfaces almost weekly in my work. When I capture a personal GeoCities site from 1999, a forum thread about...
Should platforms archive their content with public heritage institutions before sunsetting? closed
A platform announces it is shutting down. Within weeks, the servers go dark and everything disappears: years of forum threads, user-generated tutorials, community wikis, digital art, grassroots...
Should orphaned early-web artifacts enter the public domain after a documented diligent search? closed
Copyright law grants protection for decades, but millions of early-web digital artifacts — Flash animations, indie browser games, personal homepages, early forum posts — have no identifiable...
Should internet platforms be required to provide archival access to cultural heritage institutions before shutdown? closed
When a digital platform shuts down — a social network, a fan community, a creative writing host, a forum — it often takes with it years or decades of irreplaceable human expression. GeoCities,...
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March 2026