As web archives’ holdings grow, archivists subdivide them into collections so they are easier to understand and manage. In this work, we review the collection structures of eight web archive platforms. We note a plethora of different approaches to web archive collection structures. Some web archive collections support sub-collections and some permit embargoes. Curatorial decisions may be attributed to a single organization or many. Archived web pages are known by many names: mementos, copies, captures, or snapshots. Some platforms restrict a memento to a single collection and others allow mementos to cross collections. Knowledge of collection structures has implications for many different applications and users. Visitors will need to understand how to navigate collections. Future archivists will need to understand what options are available for designing collections. Platform designers need it to know what possibilities exist. The developers of tools that consume collections need to understand collection structures so they can meet the needs of their users.
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Jayanetti, H. R., Jones, S. M., Klein, M., Osbourne, A., Koerbin, P., Nelson, M. L., & Weigle, M. C. (2022). Creating Structure in Web Archives with Collections: Different Concepts from Web Archivists. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 13541 LNCS, pp. 450–458). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16802-4_45
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