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The National Archives of the UK is pleased to announce the launch of a new
archive of UK Central Government websites.
Over half of all interaction between the government and the public is now
carried out online. For example, the Hutton Inquiry website has been hugely
popular, documenting every stage of the proceedings and making them
available online. It is therefore important that this historic online
information be preserved for future generations.
This new initiative will collect and preserve 50 government websites,
including the Hutton Inquiry, 10 Downing Street and the Northern Ireland
Office. Sites are being collected as weekly or 6-monthly snapshots, using a
specially-modified version of the Internet Archive's web crawler. The
complete archive is being made available on the web and in the National
Archives' public search rooms at Kew. A copy of each snapshot is also being
accessioned for long-term preservation by our Digital Preservation
Department.
The web archive is freely available at http://www.pro.gov.uk/webarchive.
For further information or feedback, please email:
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Adrian Brown
Digital Archives Analyst and Web Archive Project Manager
Digital Preservation Department
The National Archives, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 20 8392 5330 x2103
Fax: +44 (0) 20 8392 5254
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