Martha Anderson

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Archiving Web Resources Issues for cultural
heritage institutions

• Martha Anderson
• Office of Strategic Initiatives
• Library of Congress
• November 10, 2004

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U.S. History and Culture
American Memory
http//memory.loc.gov/
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Born Digital At-Risk Web Sites

• http//www.loc.gov/minerva/collect/elec2000

http//www.loc.gov/minerva/collect/sept11
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Factors affecting thematic collection

• Character of the web
• Linked resources
• Intellectual property issues
• Permissions
• Institutional resources
• Leverage resources for higher volume
• Mission scope
• Legislative mandate, research emphasis

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Library of Congress Themes

• Event
• Elections, Olympics
• Topic/Subject
• Health Care, Terrorism
• Region/Domain
• .gov, state
• Genre
• E-journals, Blogs
• Organization
• Non-profit advocacy groups, online publishers

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Single site selection separates resource from
context.
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Health Care Case Study Public radio interview
selected for capture
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This site also captured by the crawl provides
context for interview site.
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Thematic collecting

• captures linked resources
• uses institutional expertise
• provides context for items
• can be managed throughout the workflow in batch
  mode
• challenges us to seek new methods

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Challenges

• Intellectual property laws and regulations
• Tension of preservation vs access goals
• Degree of alignment with current collection
  policies for other media
• Curation strategy
• Tools for identification and selection