IMODBC Electronic archiving Cork 24-28 September 2007 Annegrete Wulff Statistics Denmark [email_address]

Elements of the presentation Frame of the presentation : Archiving of published information What? Why? Who? Where? How?

Frame of the presentation : Archiving of published information

What?

Why?

Who?

Where?

How?

Traditional archiving

Today’s archiving

Archiving – What? Published information Books (photo) 1850 - PDF: 1999 – Homepage www.dst.dk 1997 – HTML tables (1997) 2005 – Database www.StatBank.dk 2005 –

Published information

Books (photo) 1850 -

PDF: 1999 –

Homepage www.dst.dk 1997 –

HTML tables (1997) 2005 –

Database www.StatBank.dk 2005 –

Electronic archiving

Archiving - How? In-house developed crawler (“FIDO”) First crawl October 2005 Monthly: Snapshot of all site and pages www.dst.dk and www.dst.dk/uk Snapshot of database interface www.statistikbanken.dk and www.StatBank.dk (no data)

In-house developed crawler (“FIDO”)

First crawl October 2005

Monthly:

Snapshot of all site and pages www.dst.dk and www.dst.dk/uk

Snapshot of database interface www.statistikbanken.dk and www.StatBank.dk (no data)

Crawler frequency Monthly: Snapshot of all site and pages www.dst.dk and www.dst.dk/ uk Snapshot of database interface (site and pages) www.statistikbanken.dk and www.StatBank.dk (no data) Weekly: Economic key figures Daily: dst.dk, front page: Danish and English versions 3 times daily: IMF figures

Monthly:

Snapshot of all site and pages www.dst.dk and www.dst.dk/ uk

Snapshot of database interface (site and pages) www.statistikbanken.dk and www.StatBank.dk (no data)

Weekly:

Economic key figures

Daily:

dst.dk, front page: Danish and English versions

3 times daily:

IMF figures

Key indicators

December 1997

May 2000

May 2004

January 2006

Archiving - Why? Need to have – nice to have? Legal obligation – no Institutional obligation – partly Practical, service minded ? Proof - if disputes should occur

Need to have – nice to have?

Legal obligation – no

Institutional obligation – partly

Practical, service minded ?

Proof - if disputes should occur

Archiving – Who? http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.dst.dk DST Internet Archive (pdf publications) FIDO - DST in-house developed crawler (homepage and StatBank) The Royal Library (Annual snapshot of the .dk domain and pdf publications)

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.dst.dk

DST Internet Archive (pdf publications)

FIDO - DST in-house developed crawler (homepage and StatBank)

The Royal Library (Annual snapshot of the .dk domain and pdf publications)

Accessibility

Still accessible in 2107? Do we constantly need to move data to new media? Can we still read data from past with new software? Would we need a very simple standard for archived files?

Do we constantly need to move data to new media?

Can we still read data from past with new software?

Would we need a very simple standard for archived files?