存档新闻以备明日之鉴(1/2)
概述：29岁的记者Ben Welsh创办了一家新闻网页存档网站。Hints:
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Internet Archive's Wayback Machine
Archive.org
Ben Welsh
Los Angeles Times
PastPages.org
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答疑：kiwianglehttp://t1.g.hjfile.cn/listen/201206/201206160607098297252.mp3If researchers want to know what happened on a particular day, they often look at newspapers published on that day. But what would happen if newspapers were to stop publishing? Future researchers would likely turn to the Web.
The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine at Archive.org has for years saved, or archived, websites from the past. But it only does this once a day for news websites, and even less often for other websites.
29-year-old reporter Ben Welsh decided to create a site similar to Archive.org. But he wanted to archive only news websites. And, he wanted to save their homepages more often.
Mr. Welsh works for the Los Angeles Times newspaper in California. In May he created PastPages.org. The website saves the homepages of 70 news websites from around the world once an hour. Mr. Welsh says this schedule of what he calls "harvesting" is important in today's quickly-changing news environment.
Mr. Welsh says nothing like PastPages.org had ever been done. He says no one had saved the homepages of so many news websites so often, and made that material available to the public. He hopes to keep adding to the site until it is archiving material from up to 300 news websites around the world.如果研究人员想知道在某一天发生了什么事，他们往往会查看当天出版的报纸。但如果报纸停止出版会怎样？未来的研究人员可能会转向网络。
多年以来，互联网档案馆网站Archive.org上的时光倒流机保存了许多过去的网站。但对新闻网站，它每天只保存一次，其它类型网站的存档频率就更低了。
29岁的记者Ben Welsh决定创建一个类似于Archive.org的网站。 但他只求存档新闻网站，同时他希望更频繁地保存它们的主页。
Welsh先生在加利福尼亚州的《洛杉矶时报》工作。今年五月，他创建了PastPages.org。这个网站每小时保存一次世界各地70家新闻网站的主页。Welsh先生说，这项他称作为“收获”的存档时间设定在当今瞬息万变的新闻环境中非常重要。
Welsh先生说，以前没有哪家网站像PastPages.org这样做。他说，没有人如此频繁地保存这么多新闻网站的网页，并将这些材料向公众开放。他希望增加对世界各地新闻网站的存档规模，争取扩展至300家网站。
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