RE: Web Site Capture, Anyone?

[Manning Ralph <ralph.manning@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The National Library of Canada is capturing Web documents (not Web sites,
per se), storing them on-line in its Electronic Collection(not on CD) and
making the documents available on the NLC Web site:
 http://collection.nlc-bnc.ca/e-coll-e/index-e.htm

All titles are catalogued and available through the NLC Web catalogue
resAnet:
http://www.amicus.nlc-bnc.ca/wapp/resanet/introe.htm

NLC has addressed many of the issues identified by Cathy Aster, first in a
1995 Pilot Project (link to summary and full report from the Electronic
Collection page) and more recently in its Networked Electronic Publications
Policy and Guidelines:
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/pubs/irm/eneppg.htm

NLC welcomes comments and questions about its approach.

			Ralph Manning 
-----Original Message-----
From: Cathy Aster [mailto:aster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, June 21, 1999 5:40 PM
To: PADG@xxxxxxx
Subject: Web Site Capture, Anyone?


Colleagues,

I would like to know if any of your institutions are currently engaged in
capturing Web sites and writing them to CD (as opposed to printing them on
paper), as part of your overall collection development policy.

If so,
- were preservation staff involved in the decision to do so?
- was an organized approach undertaken to reach the decision, and if so,
can you briefly describe it?
- which Web capturing software is your institution using?
- have you incorporated the maintenance of this data in your intitutions
preservation planning/policy documents?
- are the Web sites being cataloged, and if so, using which (I presume
draft) guidelines?
- how are you providing access to potential users?

If your institution is contemplating Web site capture, but has not begun to
do so, I would also be interested in hearing your thoughts.

Thanks,

Cathy Aster
Head of Preservation Services
Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305
phone: (650) 723-2132
fax: (650) 723-9852
email: aster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx