TITLE: Web Archiving at the British Library
SPEAKER: Helen Hockx-Yu
EVENT DATE: 07/18/2011
FORMAT: Video + Captions
RUNNING TIME: 56 minutes
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DESCRIPTION:
Helen Hockx-Yu discussed the key processes of web archiving and provided an overview of the British Library's web archiving activities. She discussed how the current selective archiving practices are changing to meet the requirements of archiving the UK web at scale, enabled by forthcoming non-print Legal Deposit legislation.
Speaker Biography: Helen Hockx-Yu is the head of web archiving at the British Library. Previously, she was project manager of the Planets project, a four-year project co-funded by the European Union under the Sixth Framework Programme to address core digital preservation challenges. Before joining the British Library, she worked as a program manager at the UK Joint Information Systems Committee, overseeing JISC's technology research and development activities in the area of digital preservation.
