executive web preservation update
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John Wonderlich
Aug 20, 2008, 1:03:12 PM8/20/08
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from the Washington Post:
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, August 20, 2008; Page A13
...A consortium of government and nonprofit agencies plans to capture snapshots of every federal government Web site before Jan. 20, when the next president moves into the White House and starts remaking the federal bureaucracy to fit his agenda. The goal of the 2008 "end-of-term harvest" is to preserve millions of agency records in an online archive that librarians hope will provide a valuable trove for historians, government scholars and the public...
...The San Francisco-based Internet Archive will use powerful computer software to automatically capture and store material from federal Web sites. Other partners include the California Digital Library and the University of North Texas Libraries, which will focus on in-depth looks at specific agencies; and the Government Printing Office, which maintains paper records in the Federal Depository Library Program and will offer curating advice.
...The Archives does not plan to capture again all agency Web sites, Cooper said, noting that the Archives will work with agencies to determine which Web records should be preserved.
I'm glad this is happening, but, again, this is something that should be done through a publicly accountable institution with an official mandate to preserve historical public documents, be they digital or on paper.
Capturing The Bush Legacy Online
Effort to Preserve Records Underway
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, August 20, 2008; Page A13
...A consortium of government and nonprofit agencies plans to capture snapshots of every federal government Web site before Jan. 20, when the next president moves into the White House and starts remaking the federal bureaucracy to fit his agenda. The goal of the 2008 "end-of-term harvest" is to preserve millions of agency records in an online archive that librarians hope will provide a valuable trove for historians, government scholars and the public...
...The San Francisco-based Internet Archive will use powerful computer software to automatically capture and store material from federal Web sites. Other partners include the California Digital Library and the University of North Texas Libraries, which will focus on in-depth looks at specific agencies; and the Government Printing Office, which maintains paper records in the Federal Depository Library Program and will offer curating advice.
...The Archives does not plan to capture again all agency Web sites, Cooper said, noting that the Archives will work with agencies to determine which Web records should be preserved.
I'm glad this is happening, but, again, this is something that should be done through a publicly accountable institution with an official mandate to preserve historical public documents, be they digital or on paper.
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