Document Type
Conference Paper
Publication Date
2025
Publication Title
Proceedings of the Web Archiving and Digital Libraries (WADL) Workshop 2025
Pages
10-14
Conference Name
Web Archiving and Digital Libraries (WADL) Workshop 2025, September 15, 2025, Chicago, Illinois
Abstract
In this case study, we use web archives to analyze 8,824 webpages that were taken offline and subsequently put back online, thus experiencing a “near death experience.” We enumerate the stages of a webpage’s near death experience, including the change from a successful HTTP status code to non-successful and back, the intermediate stage with markers such as an under construction banner, and an analysis of how the pages came back differently.
Rights
© 2025 The Authors.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) License.
Original Publication Citation
Frew, L., Nelson, M. L., & Weigle, M. C. (2025). Coming back differently: An exploratory case study of near death experiences of webpages [Conference paper]. Web Archiving and Digital Libraries (WADL) Workshop, Chicago, Illinois. https://wadlworkshop.github.io/2025/
Repository Citation
Frew, L., Nelson, M. L., & Weigle, M. C. (2025). Coming back differently: An exploratory case study of near death experiences of webpages [Conference paper]. Web Archiving and Digital Libraries (WADL) Workshop, Chicago, Illinois. https://wadlworkshop.github.io/2025/
ORCID
0000-0003-0929-049X (Frew), 0000-0003-3749-8116 (Nelson), 0000-0002-2787-7166 (Weigle)