LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WEB CAPTURE EXERCISE

Hi All,
The Library of Congress (LOC) WEB Capture exercise is one of the great efforts in Information Archiving and retrieval of modern times. The following snippet from the Site will give you an idea of the scope. Please click on the Title of this Post to go to the LOC site and explore the entire project.

Dave

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The Library of Congress preserves the nation's cultural artifacts and provides enduring access to them. The Library's traditional functions of acquiring, cataloging, preserving and serving collection materials of historical importance to the Congress and the American people to foster education and scholarship extend to digital materials, including Web sites.
In 2000, the Library of Congress established a pilot project to collect and preserve these primary source materials. A multidisciplinary team of Library staff representing cataloging, legal, public services, and technology services studied methods to evaluate, select, collect, catalog, provide access to, and preserve these materials for future generations of researchers. The Library developed thematic Web archives on such topics as the United States National Elections of 2000, 2002, and 2004, the Iraq War, and the events of September 11. More about these collections can be found at the MINERVA Web Preservation project Web site.

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