Web Archiving Resources
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Following are some resources that may be helpful when thinking about web archiving
AOLA project (Austrian On-Line
Archive)
Of Note: The goal of this project is to build an archive of the Austrian
Web space. See also: Archiving the Internet: Challenges, Projects and the
Austrian Perspective.
ARCHIPOL
Of Note: Project headed by the Documentation Centre for Dutch Political
Parties (Documentatiecentrum Nederlandse politieke partijen; DNPP) and the
Groningen University Library. The aim of the project is to archive the web
sites of political parties in the Netherlands.
Archivserver
Of Note: Die Deutsche Bibliothek - German National Library
California Digital Library
Web-based Government Information: Evaluating
methods for gathering and persistently managing web-based materials
Of Note: This final report provides University libraries with an understanding
of the preservation strategies for web archiving by examining the case of
government information.
CyberCemetery
Of Note: The University of North Texas Libraries and the U.S. Government
Printing Office partnered to provide permanent public access to the electronic
Web sites and publications of defunct U.S. government agencies and commissions.
Digital Archive for Chinese Studies (DACHS)
Of Note: Institute of Chinese Studies, Heidelberg University
IBM Alamaden Research Center's WebFountain
Of Note: An Internet analysis engine highlighted in IEEE Spectrum Online:
A
Fountain of Knowledge
Kulturarw3: Long time
preservation of electronic documents
Of Note: Swedish Web Archive.
MINERVA: Web Preservation Project
Of Note: US Library of Congress program to collect and preserve digital
primary source materials.
NEDLIB - Networked European
Deposit Library
Of Note: 8 European National Libraries and partners create a framework for
a networked
deposit library.
Netarchive.dk
Of Note: A one-year project exploring Danish web archiving.
Nordic Web Archive (NWA)
Of Note: The Nordic Web Archive (NWA) is the Nordic National Libraries'
forum for co-ordination and exchange of experience in the fields of harvesting
and archiving web documents. They are working on a toolset for Web archiving.
OCLC Web Characterization Project
Of Note: Conducts an annual Web sample to analyze trends in the size and
content of the Web. Currently on hiatus.
OCLC digital archive
Of Note: A commercial digital archiving service integrated with other OCLC
products.
Our Digital Island
Of Note: Provides access to Tasmanian Web sites that have been preserved
for posterity by the State Library of Tasmania.
Pandora Project
PANDORA, Australia's Web Archive,
is a selective archive of Australian online publications and web sites
built by the National Library and nine other participating libraries and
cultural collecting organisations to ensure long-term access to significant
Australian web resources.
Political Communications
Web Archiving
Of Note: A collaborative project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
with CRL as the coordinating organization and Cornell University, New York
University, Stanford University, the University of Texas at Austin, and
the Internet Archive as partners in defining a collaborative Web archiving
model.
Preserving Access to Digital Information (PADI)
Of Note: Another project of the National Library of Australia that developed
the Safekept concept.
Preserving
the Present for the Future - Conference on strategies for the Internet
Of Note: Proceedings can be downloaded from website, there are several papers
from web archiving projects.
Paradigma
(Preservation, Arrangement & Retrieval of Assorted DIGital MAterials)
Of Note: The National Library of Norway’s goal is to develop and establish
routines for the collection and preservation of digital documents, and to
give users access to these documents in compliance with The Legal Deposit
Act.
Proceedings of the 3rd ECDL Workshop on Web Archives
UK Central Government
Web Archive
Of Note: A selective collection of UK Government websites, archived from
August 2003, developed by the National Archives of the United Kingdom using
the services of the Internet Archive.
WebArchiv
Of Note: Archive of Czech web resources.
WARP - Web Archiving Project
Of Note: This is a project of the National Diet Library, Tokyo, Japan Digitizing,
Archiving, and Preserving Japanese Cultural Heritage http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews7-2.html#feature1
Web-archiving: a feasibility study for JISC and the Wellcome Trust
Web Archiving Bibliography
Webarchivist.org
Of Note: University of Washington/SUNY Institute of Technology project maintaining
the US Election 2002 Web Archive, September 11 Web Archive, and the 2002
Netherlands Election Web Archive.
