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Over the past few years the web has had a huge impact on the
availability of academic information. There are, however, few
established arrangements for archiving web sites, and with the average
life of a web page estimated to be around 44 days, there is need for
urgent action to ensure that information with long-term value to the
UK education and research community is not irrevocably lost.
Recently the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has formed a
UK Web Archiving Consortium (UKWAC) with partner organisations to
pilot a selective approach to the archiving of significant UK Web
sites. UKWAC has successfully procured a common infrastructure of
hardware, software, and technical support and development for a two
year Web archiving pilot.
The JISC now wishes to commission a project post as part of the UKWAC
pilot,to capture and archive a selection of the existing JISC funded
HE and FE project websites and develop a JISC Collection Development
Policy and selection guidelines for future web archiving activity by
the JISC. This project is part of the implementation of the JISC
Continuing Access and Digital Preservation Strategy 2002-5 and offers
an exciting opportunity to help shape the development of web archiving
in the UK.
Tenders should be submitted by 12 noon on Friday 30th July 2004. The
project should start as soon as possible and complete in June 2006.
Funding of up to £60,000 inclusive of VAT and expenses is available
for the project.
Further information including the full Invitation To Tender can be
found on the JISC web site at the following URL:
<http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=funding_webarchiving>
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