The Collection of Digital Literary Magazines (DILIMAG) traces back to a project funded by the Austrian Research Fund (FWF), which was carried out at the Innsbruck Newspaper Archive from March 1, 2007 to December 23, 2010. One of the goals of this project was to explore the technical and documentary requirements and gain experience that would enable the construction of a long-term web archive in the field of literature dissemination and criticism. In the scientific field, it was about the exemplary analysis and description of a selected 'pool' of Internet sources. However, the question of whether substantial changes can be proven for literary criticism through the shift to the 'new medium' Internet was also in the foreground and, if so, in what form and in what function do these occur? The results of the scientific work were published in two monographs by the Innsbruck Studienverlag: Renate Giacomuzzi, Stefan Neuhaus, Christiane Zintzen (2010): „Digitale Literaturvermittlung“ und Renate Giacomuzzi (2011): „Deutschsprachige Literaturmagazine im Internet“.

Directly following the DILIMAG project, the project "Authorhomepages" (2011-2014), also funded by the FWF, started, which dealt with the archiving and documentation of forms of self-presentation by authors. Since web archiving requires a high degree of specific technical know-how and experience in dealing with the constantly changing requirements of Internet sources, we worked with the Internet Archive (San Francisco) from 2011 to 2017. The "Internet Archive" as the oldest institution in this field worldwide offers the necessary professional support and the guarantee of a long-term secure preservation of the archived documents with the archive-it service. In order to have control over the data and access possibilities, the archived sources were imported from the "Internet Archive" to the server of the University of Innsbruck. Since 2017, the Innsbruck Newspaper Archive has been carrying out the mirroring and maintenance of the web archive on its own using Heritrix, Browsertrix-Crawler, and other web archiving tools.

At the end of 2022, the ongoing archiving and expansion of the collection was discontinued (see „Ein kurzer Brief zum Abschied“ for details). Access to the archived sources remains permanent.

Contact: iza@uibk.ac.at

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