Website Archiving
Articles and resources about archiving websites.
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Website Archiving - Archive
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Articles and resources about archiving websites.
- National Archives pilots council web archiving project
- New project will allow councils to preserve online information. Guardian Government Computing - Guardian Professional, Monday 25 July 2011. "A web archiving model that allows local authorities to preserve important online information is to be piloted by the National Archives..."
- NZ Decommissioning Websites Factsheet
- Archives New Zealand, November 24, 2010. "Public sector websites may include content and metadata which must be managed in accordance with section 17 of the Public Records Act 2005. This factsheet outlines some key factors to consider when decommissioning websites..."
- Archiving websites
- Central Office of Government. Guidance number: TG105; Date issued: March 2009; Version: 1.0. "The aim of this guidance is to ensure that websites can be archived regularly and accurately by The National Archives (TNA). It also provides guidance for website design and maintenance in order to support the archiving process..."
- National Archives thinks about web archiving: now and in the future
- Public Technology, 26 May 2009. "The National Archives is pleased to announce a study into how archived websites are collected and made available to users. The study is funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee and will take place in collaboration with the UK Web Archiving Consortium..."
- POWR - The Preservation of Web Resources Handbook - in pdf format (751kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). Digital preservation for the UK HE/FE web management community. University of London Computer Centre, 2008. "... The Handbook is structured in two parts. The first part deals with web resources and makes practical suggestions for their management, capture, selection, appraisal and
preservation. It includes observations on web content management systems, and a list of available tools for performing web capture. It concludes with a discussion of Web 2.0 issues, and a range of related case studies. The second part is more focussed on web resources within an Institution. It offers advice about institutional drivers and policies for web archiving, along with suggestions for effecting a change within an organisation; one such approach is the adoption of Information Lifecycle Management. There are separate Appendices covering Legal guidance (written by Jordan Hatcher) and records
management. The Handbook also contains a bibliography and a glossary of terms..."
This category last updated: 28 July 2011