[ih] Archiving Internet history

[Brian E Carpenter]

On 17-Feb-23 07:25, Leo Vegoda via Internet-history wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Feb 2023 at 22:08, John Gilmore via Internet-history
> <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>> It would be better if there were ten Internet Archive nonprofits (or
>> government agencies) scattered around the planet.  Each of them would
>> ideally be taking copies of each others' full holdings, as well as doing
>> their own crawls of the live web, and scanning in whatever physical
>> cultural works they are particularly interested in.  Anybody know any
>> Internet billionaires or spy-agency VP's who want to catalyze and endow
>> a second Internet Archive?  The big advantage for spy agencies is
>> stealth; you can look anywhere you want in your own archive, and nobody
>> knows where you are looking.
> 
> Many national libraries actively archive websites from their own
> countries. The UK example is:
> 
> https://www.webarchive.org.uk/en/ukwa/info/nominate

But there's the problem right there. Similarly, archives.govt.nz does
an annual crawl of "NZ" web sites. What we are talking about here is
an archive of international material, which no traditional national
library will care about.

    Brian

> 
> That is the page for nominating a site that should be archived.
> 
> I hope I am right in assuming that people already working in Legal
> Deposit Libraries
> (https://www.bl.uk/legal-deposit/about-legal-deposit) think deeply
> about doing this well and preserving for centuries and beyond.
> 
> I'd hope that we don't need to reinvent organisational structures that
> not only already exist but also have legal authority and public
> funding.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Leo