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Re: Preserving Evidence: 5 Tools to Make it Easy

Gunther Eysenbach — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 22:55:16 -0000

Stayboystay is a blatant act of plagiarizing what WebCite http://www.webcitation.org is doing since 1998. WebCite is a de-facto standard used by hundreds of academics and journals, for example Biomed Central journals (see e.g. http://blogs.openaccesscentral.com/blogs/bmcblo... ).

ORIGINAL (http://www.webcitation.org):
"WebCite® is an archiving system for webreferences (cited webpages and websites), which can be used by authors, editors, and publishers of scholarly papers and books, to ensure that cited webmaterial will remain available to readers in the future. If cited webreferences in journal articles, books etc. are not archived, future readers may encounter a "404 File Not Found" error when clicking on a cited URL.

A WebCite® reference is an archived webcitation, and rather than linking to the live website (which can and probably will disappear in the future)".

STOLEN (http://www.stayboystay.com/aboutus.php, archived at http://www.webcitation.org/5TbFbyVLi )
"StayBoyStay.Com is an archiving system for webreferences (cited web pages and websites), which can be used by anybody to ensure that cited web material will remain available to readers in the future. If cited webreferences sare not archived, future readers may encounter a "404 File Not Found" error when clicking on a URL. A StayBoyStay.com reference is an archived web citation, and rather than linking to the live website (which can and probably will disappear in the future).

Re: Preserving Evidence: 5 Tools to Make it Easy

Gunther Eysenbach — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 22:32:16 -0000

Your forgot WebCite (http://www.webcitation.org) in your list.

I find it interesting (and outrageous) to see "stayboystay" listed here - this service itself is a plagiary of WebCite.
They not only stole the idea, but also lifted some content from WebCite.

Re: Preserving Evidence: 5 Tools to Make it Easy

JB — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 20:46:52 -0000

RS: I hate to admit it, but My Web beats Furl in my book. I've already ported my collection over there. You are right, it does cache the page too. I used Furl previously as my bookmark dump for articles for the Copyright 2.0 Show and then used Delicious to create the show notes. Now that's changed.

Thanks for the tip!

Re: Preserving Evidence: 5 Tools to Make it Easy

Recording Studio — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:55:05 -0000

My web links, the yahoo bookmarking service also allows you to save a copy of the page if I am not mistaken. This was a really good post. I had never thought of using these bookmarking sites for this purpose.

Re: Preserving Evidence: 5 Tools to Make it Easy

JB — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 04:11:30 -0000

Michael: A neat program there. I just downloaded it and tried it out on PT. I now know that the home page is a whopping 7559 pixels high. That's roughly six screens tall on my monitor.

Yeah, it might be time to see about putting fewer entries on the main page.

It is a very neat work though. It's too bad we can't get this in a site though. Still, I will definitely be using this some more.

Thank you for the tip!

Re: Preserving Evidence: 5 Tools to Make it Easy

Michael — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 04:04:13 -0000

A great tool which I personally find invaluable for capturing web pages is Paparazzi!". Not only is it free, but it will capture the entire page no matter how long it is. It also automatically includes the full URL and date the page was captured to the file name (which you can change if need be).