Web-At-Risk Project

Lead Partner: California Digital Library at the University of California (external link)
Additional Partners: New York University (external link) and the University of North Texas (external link). Additional support from Stanford University, the San Diego Supercomputing Center, the Arizona State Library, the Library of Congress, and the University of California libraries.

Web-at-Risk enables librarians and archivists to capture, curate, preserve, and provide access to Web-based government and political information. The primary focus of the collection is state and local government information, but it may grow to include Web documents from federal and international government, and from non-profit sources.

Objectives

• Develop archiving tools to capture, store and provide long-term access to Web information
• Manage rights-protected content
• Capture information according to thematic events

More detailed project information can be found at the Project Web site (external link)

Highlights

• News: CDL Opens Web Archiving Service to the Public
• Tool: Web Archiving Service
• Tool: BagIt Format Specification for Transferring Digital Content
• Collection Planning Guidelines
• Web-at-Risk Overview - YouTube video (7:13)