Gone Today, Here Tomorrow: Archiving and Preserving Born Digital Government Documents Molly Bragg, Partner Specialist Internet Archive [email_address] Federal Depository Library Conference Arlington, Virginia October 20, 2008

Internet Archive Founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle Largest public web archive in existence Designated as a library by the state of California in 2007 Digitized collections of books, audio, moving images www.archive.org

Founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle

Largest public web archive in existence

Designated as a library by the state of California in 2007

Digitized collections of books, audio, moving images

www.archive.org

Partner Needs for Web Capture Libraries and Archives need web capture beyond general web archive Partners need to create focused collections Harvest at specific frequencies Reporting Features Hosting, Access and full text search

Libraries and Archives need web capture beyond general web archive

Partners need to create focused collections

Harvest at specific frequencies

Reporting Features

Hosting, Access and full text search

Archiving Big and Small Domain crawls for the most comprehensive collections, ex .fr, .au Curated crawls for large collections, Iraq war, Election Collections Archive-It service, for smaller sized collections (automated harvesting)

Domain crawls for the most comprehensive collections, ex .fr, .au

Curated crawls for large collections, Iraq war, Election Collections

Archive-It service, for smaller sized collections (automated harvesting)

Archiving the U.S. Federal Government Library of Congress Congressional Harvests (107 th – 110 th ) NARA End of Presidental term (2004) Congressional Election Harvest (2006, 2008) End of Term 2008 harvest Collaborative project (LoC, CDL, UNT, GPO)

Library of Congress

Congressional Harvests (107 th – 110 th )

NARA

End of Presidental term (2004)

Congressional Election Harvest (2006, 2008)

End of Term 2008 harvest

Collaborative project (LoC, CDL, UNT, GPO)

www.loc.gov/ minerva/

www.webharvest.gov

Archive-It Subscription service for smaller collection needs Includes collection management, harvesting, full text search, hosting and access Collections publicly available at www.archive-it.org Over 65 partners (State Archive/Libraries, Universities, Federal institutions, Museums, Public Libraries)

Subscription service for smaller collection needs

Includes collection management, harvesting, full text search, hosting and access

Collections publicly available at www.archive-it.org

Over 65 partners (State Archive/Libraries, Universities, Federal institutions, Museums, Public Libraries)

Archiving with Archive-It Publications in born digital formats only Web archiving allows archivist to capture more than just the publications At risk content needs to be preserved before it is lost Supplement paper collections Builds relationships between archives/libraries and government agencies

Publications in born digital formats only

Web archiving allows archivist to capture more than just the publications

At risk content needs to be preserved before it is lost

Supplement paper collections

Builds relationships between archives/libraries and government agencies

Federal Institutions and Archive-It National Institutes of Health: capture select NIH websites and records Department of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information: archiving the E-Print Network, a web-based library of published papers, research groups, and electronic documents. Department of Labor: create an archive of their web presence.

National Institutes of Health: capture select NIH websites and records

Department of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information: archiving the E-Print Network, a web-based library of published papers, research groups, and electronic documents.

Department of Labor: create an archive of their web presence.

US State Government: North Carolina State Library / State Archive partnership 1 main collection for all state agencies Websites for the collection are selected using specific appraisal guidelines Provide special access portal for the web archives from their own site to brand and market the collection

State Library / State Archive partnership

1 main collection for all state agencies

Websites for the collection are selected using specific appraisal guidelines

Provide special access portal for the web archives from their own site to brand and market the collection

http://www.archives.ncdcr.gov/webarchives/index.html

Local Web Archiving San Francisco Public Library, Government Information Center Archiving San Francisco city agencies with Archive-It Digitizing San Francisco municipal reports: http://www.archive.org/details/sfpl

San Francisco Public Library, Government Information Center

Archiving San Francisco city agencies with Archive-It

Digitizing San Francisco municipal reports: http://www.archive.org/details/sfpl

Global web archiving: Latin America Latin American Network Information Center, at the University of Texas, Austin Archive ministry, elected official websites for countries in Latin America and the Caribbean Comprehensive coverage of Latin American government information

Latin American Network Information Center, at the University of Texas, Austin

Archive ministry, elected official websites for countries in Latin America and the Caribbean

Comprehensive coverage of Latin American government information

http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/archives/lagda/

Global Web Archiving: Asia, Pacific Region National Library of Australia Thailand, Laos, Papua New Guinea, East Timor, Burma / Myanmar and Cambodia Election coverage, spontaneous events and government websites Example collections: -Lao PDR Government and NGO Websites -Post Thaksin politics in Thailand -Cambodian National Election 2008 -Burmese Uprising 2007

National Library of Australia

Thailand, Laos, Papua New Guinea, East Timor, Burma / Myanmar and Cambodia

Election coverage, spontaneous events and government websites

Example collections:

-Lao PDR Government and NGO Websites

-Post Thaksin politics in Thailand

-Cambodian National Election 2008

-Burmese Uprising 2007

Contact Information Molly Bragg Partner Specialist [email_address] 415.561.6799 ext 6 http://www.slideshare.net/event/dlcfall08

Molly Bragg

Partner Specialist

[email_address]

415.561.6799 ext 6

http://www.slideshare.net/event/dlcfall08