Web Archiving ServicePublic Access

Release Date: July 7 2009

• California Digital Library, University of North Texas, New York University, Stanford

• Build tools enabling librarians to capture, curate and preserve government and political web sites

• 2008/09 extension provides public access to those archives

Project Facets

• Strong and early focus on user input (focus groups, interviews, usability tests)

• Early curators are government information specialists– Strong document-centric focus

• Need to meet the needs of the University of California– Large, distributed organization– Need to enable collaboration, shared collections

Analyze Site Change

WAS So Far…

• Went into production in October 2008

• 42 projects / archives• 1489 sites• ~ 7 TB• 18 organizations• 475% growth

July 7th: Going Live

• California State Government Agencies• Orange County Government • Monterey County Government• NYU Labor Archives• NYU Social Movements Archives• NYU Marxism, Leninism, Trotskyism• NYU Anarchy Web Archive• NYU Alternative Mass Media• California Wildfires 2007• Myanmar Cyclone• California Governor Recall Election

2003• San Diego Local Government• AFL-CIO Archive• Santa Cruz Wildfires

Confirmed

6 month embargo before captured content goes live

Demo

Archiving California

• The .ca.gov domain is the 3rd largest U.S. government domain. (NOAA and NASA are larger).

• With the California State Government Web Archive and the local archives, we are capturing one of the largest web domains in the world.

Archiving CaliforniaState and Local

- UCGILS

“.ca.gov”

Orange CountyLos Angeles

Davis

San Diego

Monterey

Santa Barbara

Riverside