Preserving the ephemeral: reflections on archiving Japanese websites
In 2015 when I applied for a grant from the Freeman Spogli Institute (FSI) to initiate a web archiving program, I viewed our project from a theoretical perspective. While in the past we might collect ephemera, such as letters, small-run newsprints, or underground comics, these type of critical sources of information are now produced in the format of online websites, which are created, updated, deleted with a previously unknown speed. In order for future scholars to have access to this kind of primary resource, I thought that it was academically important to preserve online conversations t