1. Websites as primary sources
What are primary sources?
Historical primary sources
Current primary sources
Why archive web sites?

2. What is a primary source?
Primary sources are the raw materials of history — original documents and objects which were created at the time under study. They are different from secondary sources, accounts or interpretations of events created by someone without firsthand experience.

3. Historical primary sources
How can we learn how people in the past lived?
What evidence did they leave?

7. April 14th 1/2 past 10 o'clock P.M.
O, fatal day. O, noble Victim. Treason has done its worst. The President has been Assassinated. It has just been announced at my door that he was shot a half hour ago at Fords Theatre. Is it possible? I have just come from near the scene, it is too True. 11 o'clock P.M.

15. What are some current primary sources?
How do we record our thoughts?
How do we tell our stories to each other?
How do we correspond with each other?
What evidence will we leave for future study?

16. What should be saved? Why?
Pat Canterbury showing albums in which he has collected stickers and patches from mining companies he has worked for.
Family Photo Album
Photos by a commercial "wanderer" through New York and Pennsylvania. Portraits, landscapes, train and Gettysburg

17. How will we understand what was important to people of the past?
Pat Canterbury showing albums in which he has collected stickers and patches from mining companies he has worked for.
Photos by a commercial "wanderer" through New York and Pennsylvania. Portraits, landscapes, train and Gettysburg
Family Photo Album
Pat Canterbury showing albums in which he has collected stickers and patches from mining companies he has worked for.
Family Photo Album
Photos by a commercial "wanderer" through New York and Pennsylvania. Portraits, landscapes, train and Gettysburg

18. Evidence of Daily Life Think back over the past 24 hours
Jot down 3-5 things you did (that you might be willing to tell the group)
If you had to prove what you did, what evidence would you produce?
How much of that evidence will probably still be available in 10 years? 25? 100?

19. Why archive and save Web sites?
"I knew that websites changed periodically, but I didn't realize that once they are changed, they can never be viewed as they once were unless we archive them"
-student participant

20. What should be saved? Why?
Kid Central
Around the World
Our Community

21. How will future scholars understand what was important to us?
Kid Central
Around the World
Our Community