Website Archival and Preservation

Photo by NOAA on Unsplash Introduction Michael Harley has been at it again in a follow-up post titled: What happens to our blogs when we die?. And, as usual his thoughts and ideas are really quite excellent. I highly recommend reading the original article. But, as seems to be becoming a habit with me, I have some additional thoughts that might be of interest. In fact, in this case, I might be able to provide an interesting idea or two that Michael hadn’t considered. Markdown & HTML First, Michael made the point that he had been using some 11ty macros for processing his website. And now, because he is thinking of longer term storage of his posts, he is undoing the macros and converting them back into pure Markdown. Something to think about: Markdown allows inline HTML, at least in part. So things like image handling could be converted into HTML. Why is this useful? And doesn’t it reduce the readability of the original files? Yes, it does a little… But there is a long term gain to be…