You may remember a couple of weeks ago there was a little flurry of
emails about the re-design of DTI's web site and the fact that the
useful PUSET publications page had disappeared (see Michael's message
below).  It was noted that some of the reports could still be found by
searching the DTI's newly designed general publications page
(http://www.dti.gov.uk/publications/index.html), but that the Wolfendale
report seemed to have gone for ever.  
 
There was also mention of various web archive initiatives for
permanently saving web pages even after they had been removed from web
sites.  As the Wellcome Library is involved in one such initiative - UK
Web Archiving Consortium  - I checked with my colleague as to where
government pages might be archived.  He suggested checking the National
Archives' UK Government Web Archive and, by a stroke of luck, the
Wolfendale report has been archived there.  You can now find it at
http://crawl04.archive.org/ukgov/20060215164354/http://www.dti.gov.uk/os
t/ostbusiness/puset/report.htm.
 
FYI, the three web archives mentioned by my colleague are:
 
1) UK Web Archiving Consortium - http://www.webarchive.org.uk/ - which
seeks permission from site owners to archive selected sites from the UK
domain. UKWAC comprises: the British Library, National Archives, JISC,
Wellcome Library and the national libraries of Scotland and Wales. Each
partner collects material relevant to its own specialised area of
expertise. 
2) The UK Government Web Archive -
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/preservation/webarchive/ - is a
selective collection of UK Government websites developed by the National
Archives. It was launched in September 2003
3) The Internet Archive -  http://www.archive.org/index.php - is a US
intitiative but the archive is not limited to US web sites.

Hope this is of interest

Louise

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From: psci-com: on public engagement with science
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Michael Kenward
Sent: 22 June 2006 17:07
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [PSCI-COM] DTI pulls plug on PEST files

Thanks to someone on this list, I now have a copy of the Wolfendale
report on science in the media.

In the past, I could retrieve this document from the DTI's web site. But
in a recent redesign they removed links to this and several other
reports that are relevant to the PEST community.

For example, you can no longer get the simple "how to" guide that some
ageing hack put together fir the OST five years or so ago. Maybe the
report is well past its read by date. But if so no one has told the
folks in the EU who have just put out a report that has a reference, and
link, to the document in question.

Visit here to find out about the EU's 76-page report 'Communicating
Science: A Scientist's Survival Kit':

http://absw.blogspot.com/

If there is anyone here with influence over what the DTI does with old
documents, they might like to intervene. If nothing else, the OSI, as we
must now call it, could grant someone else the right to hold "out of
print" documents.

Web revisionism is not new, or unique to the DTI. Does anyone remember
the name Gil Amelio? He once rang Apple, although you would not know it
from their web site. It was this saga that prompted me to buy software
that lets me grab local copies of web pages.

I wonder of the OST signed up to the British Library's campaign to build
an archive of web sites.

____________________________

Michael Kenward
ABSW e-minder
http://www.absw.org.uk
http://absw.blogspot.com/



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