Documenter et Partitionner une Archive du Web: vers le Depot Legal d'un Domaine Media

It is now widely acknowledged that the Web has given rise to radical new forms of contents and communication between people. A genuine culture is currently emerging and for which questions of memory and heritage should be answered. Since a few years, the archiving of the Web has been recognized to be a very crucial issue. Several initiatives, at national or international levels, are launched and illustrate the multiple ways of dealing with such an archiving, according to the context and constraints. After showing why the Web remains a complex object, this article deals with the different strategies that exist in order to archive the Web, presents the paramounts initiatives, and concludes on the french case by paying a special attention to the approach adopted by the french Institut National de l?Audiovisuel with respect to its targeted domain.