A Tale of a Disappearing Website « The Signal: Digital Preservation

Some of you may have heard the recent news that The National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) program, including their website, was to be terminated on January 15 due to a loss of funding.

This impending loss grabbed the attention of not only researchers and science and biology librarians, but web archivists as well. We don’t often



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Source: http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/01/a-tale-of-a-disappearing-website/
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