Library of Congress: Web Archiving

LC Web Archives Scheduled Maintenance today

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:23:25 GMT

The Library of Congress Web Archives will have a period of downtime today, September 28, from 9:30am ET (for approximately 4 hours) due to scheduled maintenance. We regret the inconvenience and appreciate your patience.

Indian General Elections 2009 Web Archive released

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:26:56 GMT

This new web archive from the Library of Congress is a selected set of 57 web sites documenting the 2009 Indian General Elections, which were held in five phases between April 16 and May 13, 2009. Sites harvested as part of this project include candidate, government, national and state political party web sites.

Iraq War Web Archive

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:20:31 GMT

In 2003 the Library of Congress began archiving websites related to the Iraq War. The first phase of the collection, beginning on March 13, 2003 and ending June 30, 2003, is available for researchers. Included in the web archive are U.S. government sites, foreign government sites, public policy and political advocacy groups, educational organizations, religious organizations, support groups for military personnel, anti-war groups, sites that target children, and news sources.

U.S. Web Archiving Survey

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:50:53 GMT

The National Digital Stewardship Alliance Content Working Group is sponsoring a survey of organizations in the United States who are actively involved in or planning to archive content from the web. The goal of the survey is to better understand the landscape of web archiving activities in the United States, including what organizations or individuals are archiving, what types of web content are being preserved, the tools and services being used, and what type of access is being provided for researchers. The survey will close October 31, 2011.

Indonesian General Elections 2009 Web Archive

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:13:00 GMT

Launched just prior to the start of this feed, the Indonesian General Elections 2009 Web Archive is a selected set of approximately 80 websites covering three separate rounds of elections during that year - the parliamentary election held in April, the first round of the presidential election held in April followed by the second/final round of the presidential election in September. Sites harvested include campaign and party websites and blogs as well as sites with information about bio-marine environment issues, an important Indonesian campaign issue in 2009.

Ask the Recommending Officer: The September 11 Web Archive

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:24:06 GMT

Ten years ago the Library and its partners created the September 11 Web Archive. Read about the early days of the archive in this interview with Recommending Officer Cassy Ammen, who helped launch the project.

Web Archive Preservation Planning

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 12:12:10 GMT

Web Preservation Engineering IT Specialist Nicholas Taylor discusses challenges and strategies for web archive preservation planning in a recent post on the Library of Congress digital preservation blog.

Ask the Recommending Officer: The Civil War Sesquicentennial Web Archive

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:27:49 GMT

The Library's digital preservation blog kicks off a new series of occasional "ask the Recommending Officer" posts to give some insight into how the Library builds its web archives. First up: Will Elsbury talks about the ongoing Civil War Sesquicentennial Web Archive.

Welcome to the Library of Congress Web Archiving Feed

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 18:54:51 GMT

Since 2000, the Library has developed thematic Web archives on such topics as the United States National Elections, the Iraq War, and the events of September 11. As of August 2011 the Library has collected over 250 terabytes of Web content. This new feed will provide occasional updates and announcements about the Library's Web archiving program, such as collection announcements and blog posts about Web archiving topics. Thanks for subscribing!