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ICADS Topic: Web Archiving


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Theme: Creating and building digital collections

This page provides links to information about initiatives and innovative projects relating to Web Archiving at the national libraries contributing to ICADS (IFLA-CDNL Alliance for Digital Strategies). For more general information on the topic follow the PADI Topic links below.

What's in scope?

  • Set up, management and administration of web archiving operation and services
  • Defining of domains
  • Selection policy criteria for selective harvesting
  • Methodologies and technical solutions for selective or domain level crawling.

For additional resources

see PADI Topics: Web Archiving and Web Archiving Tools and Web Crawlers.

ICADS libraries contributing to the topic:

British Library | Deutsche Nationalbibliothek | Library of Congress

British Library

UK Web Archive
The UK Web Archive collaborative archiving by leading UK institutions of selected UK websites for their historical, social and cultural significance in the UK has archived over 4,000 websites since 1985. Five partners collaborate to build the UK Web Archive - British Library, National Library of Wales, JISC, Wellcome Library, National Archives. The archive also contains websites selected by the National Library of Scotland up to the end of 2007.
Contact: Philip Beresford
http://www.webarchive.org.uk/ukwa/
(Contributor: British Library )
Web Archiving Programme
The Web Archiving Programme has been set up to put in place systems that enable the British Library to become the point of first resort for anyone who wants to access a comprehensive archive of material from the UK Web domain. The programme will ensure the archive will be accessible forever.
Contact: Helen Hockx-Yu
http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/stratpolprog/digi/webarch/index.html
(Contributor: British Library )

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek

nestor - Network of expertise in digital long-term preservation
The objective of the project is to create a competence network of long-term archival storage and long-term availability of digital resources in Germany. The competence network should ensure that digital resources in Germany are archived on a long-term basis, are secured and are made available for use. Through national and international co-operation, a contribution should be achieved towards safeguarding our global cultural heritage. Within the project, the following range of choices are to be developed, among others:
  • a Web-based information forum with various content options for long-term archival storage and long-term availability of digital resources in Germany
  • criteria for trusted digital repositories
  • suggestions for procedures for a certification system for digital archives
  • suggestions for principles of collection and selection criteria for the archival storage of digital resources
  • policies for long-term archival storage of digital resources
  • a work-structure for the long-term availability of digital resources in the museum area
  • a concept for a sustainable form of organization of the competence network and information forum
  • co-ordination of division of duties and the assumption of long-term duties, especially in the delineation between the library, archive and museum areas
The German National Library is in charge of carrying out the project in co-operation with the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München, Computer- und Medienservice / Universitätsbibliothek der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the Fernuniversität Hagen (since 2006), the Generaldirektion der Staatlichen Archive Bayerns (until 2006), the Institut für Museumskunde, the Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen and the Bundesarchiv (since 2005).
Contact: Natascha Schumann
http://www.d-nb.de/eng/wir/projekte/nestor.htm
(Contributor: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek )

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Library of Congress

Library of Congress Web Archives (LCWA)
The Library of Congress is forming topical collections of archived web sites, selected by curators and subject specialists, and evaluating various aspects: workflow strategies, efficient metadata creation for end-user access, metadata packaging, and search systems. Each site in a collection is given simple descriptive cataloging using MODS (Metadata Object Description Standard), which is currently used by a Lucene-based access system to provide searching across the collections or in individual or selected collections. The MODS data is partially derived from the archived site and partially supplied by program. Catalogers review the descriptions and supply information for basic search points. Ongoing work will include experimentation with METS wrappers for the MODS descriptions, image thumbnails, tag clouds, and PREMIS preservation metadata. The deriving, describing, searching, and packaging aspects of the project are all part of continuing research into effective archiving of web material. It is also part of a continuing effort by the Library to preserve web materials for future generations of researchers, and also to use metadata to enable consistent searching across sites that may be in various languages and scripts. The project has given a special emphasis to United States elections and the sites of persons in the United States Congress. Technical information is available from the project web site.
Contact: Tracy Meehleib
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/lcwa/html/lcwa-home.html
(Contributor: Library of Congress )

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Related Topics: ICADS Topic: Digital Archiving | ICADS Topic: Digital Ingest & Storage | ICADS Topic: Digital Preservation | ICADS Topic: Digital Resource Discovery | ICADS Topic: Digital Rights Management | ICADS Topic: Digitisation

Broader Topic: ICADS (IFLA-CDNL Alliance for Digital Strategies)

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