Comments on: British Library Web Archive Confusion?

By: ✔Verified Followback

✔Verified Followback — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:32:42 +0000

British Library Web Archive Confusion? http://bit.ly/cfE56M

By: Mark Aaron Murnahan

Mark Aaron Murnahan — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:09:25 +0000

I cannot imagine why they would want to do it. The Internet Archive is pretty rock-solid. It sounds like somebody just wants another way to spend some extra tax dollars.

It is kind of cool to see the Internet history. I will go and look at some of my old sites once in a while and get a laugh. Things have changed a lot, and it will be interesting to show my kids what it was like in the days of the “dinosaur” websites once they are older.

By: richard

richard — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:50:07 +0000

The reason that the British Library are keen to have their own project is that it is important to keep the nations heritage available for future generations. The TNA and the country’s legal deposit libraries are charged to keep all published material from their catchment area in order to see it so preserved. It would be sad to see them unable to do that, we are facing an information dark age at present as it is without these institutions unable to do their jobs.
That isn’t to belittle the Internet Archive or any other project that aims to take on this mammoth task the work they they do should be applauded. It just seems a shame to rely entirely on what is essentially a private organisation when we have institutions in place all over the world who already have responsibility for the task.

By: JohnSimonds

JohnSimonds — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:53:39 +0000

RT @thetechnewsblog: British Library Web Archive Confusion? http://bit.ly/9Bkq1J Here is how the BL found the data http://bit.ly/91qFAf