The average lifespan for a website is 60 days. \”To a librarian, whose whole role in life is to preserve information, that is the stuff of sleepless nights.\”
As well as regularly archiving 10,000 sites, the British Library will take half-yearly \”snapshots\” of the entire .uk domain, which is presently 25 million webpages, with 60,000 being registered monthly. The library plans to create a cross section of British websites, consciously choosing a variety of sites, \”for example, we chose the Soil Association site and also the Monsanto site, to see how the debates on GM foods matched up.\”
The archive will be cataloged, somehow, and they are investigated getting copyright clearance so that the public can browse the archives.
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