Web Archiving Service Public Access Release Date: July
California Digital Library, University of North Texas, New York University, Stanford Build tools enabling librarians to capture, curate and preserve government and political web sites 2008/09 extension provides public access to those archives
Project Facets Strong and early focus on user input (focus groups, interviews, usability tests) Early curators are government information specialists –Strong document-centric focus Need to meet the needs of the University of California –Large, distributed organization –Need to enable collaboration, shared collections
Analyze Site Change
WAS So Far… Went into production in October projects / archives 1489 sites ~ 7 TB 18 organizations 475% growth
July 7 th : Going Live California State Government Agencies Orange County Government Monterey County Government NYU Labor Archives NYU Social Movements Archives NYU Marxism, Leninism, Trotskyism NYU Anarchy Web Archive NYU Alternative Mass Media California Wildfires 2007 Myanmar Cyclone California Governor Recall Election 2003 San Diego Local Government AFL-CIO Archive Santa Cruz Wildfires Confirmed 6 month embargo before captured content goes live
Demo
Archiving California The.ca.gov domain is the 3 rd largest U.S. government domain. (NOAA and NASA are larger). With the California State Government Web Archive and the local archives, we are capturing one of the largest web domains in the world.
Archiving California State and Local - UCGILS “.ca.gov” Orange County Los Angeles Davis San Diego Monterey Santa Barbara Riverside