Talk:Archive

Limitations and alternatives

Added the historian perspective to the issue of the lack of archival sources. I also added an example.– Batili anlamda ilk editor (talk) 15:35, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: INFO 505 - Foundations of Information Science

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 22 August 2023 and 11 December 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Peer reviewers: Ftalebhaghighi.

— Assignment last updated by Ftalebhaghighi (talk) 22:08, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

Timeline

I am intermittently developing a timeline of the various archives on the Archiverdict website ]https://archiverdict.fandom.com/wiki/Archives_timeline here].OR, perhaps, but use or develop if appropriate. Jackiespeel (talk) 11:39, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

Computing usage

Can somebody more tech-minded than me clarify or reword the sentence at the end of the lede that runs The computing use of the term "archive" should not be confused with the record-keeping meaning of the term. This article does briefly cover web archiving and "dark archives". The word "archive" is also used in computing as a near-synonym for backup, and hence is used in such technical terminology as archive bit and archive file. But surely in all those cases, as in more traditional usage, the word is being used with broadly the same undertones, to suggest means of ensuring the long-term retention of data that might otherwise be regarded as ephemeral and therefore at risk of destruction. If there's some fine distinction I'm missing, please explain. I'm going to add a "clarify" tag. GrindtXX (talk) 16:29, 26 December 2025 (UTC)