Dear Iain, Thank you for your message to the list serv and for highlighting our UK Government Web Archive collection.
This is a reminder that whilst some of these sites are archived regularly, they must not be relied upon as back-up copies by individual departments. We strongly recommend that you have you own arrangements for taking and preserving full copies of your departmental websites, both for FoI and disaster recovery. Your websites need to be treated as you would any other record required for FoI, retention schedules and disaster recovery purposes. For further information on web archiving, please see: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/preservation/webarchive/faq.htm
Or, please contact us, we will be happy to provide further advice and details of publications available.
Best regards,
Fleur Soper | Communications Officer
Digital Preservation | The National Archives
web: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/preservation
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From: Archivists, conservators and records managers.
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Iain Flett
Sent: 11 May 2006 16:33
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Subject: archived websites
Colleagues;
FYI.
Apologies if you knew this already.
It came as a pleasant surprise to me, musing about preservation of versions
of my council's website for foi enquiries, that it's being done already by
TNA for many government bodies, in my case
http://crawl04.archive.org/ukgov/200307-*/http://www.dundeecity.gov.uk
or
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/preservation/webarchive/
then enter your own domain
The TNA partner,
http://www.archive.org/web/web.php
has many websites, possibly of firms/institutions/organisations in your own
areas, from 1996.
Regards
Iain Flett
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