At the level of principle, I object fundamentally to the notion that GCHQ in the UK or the NSA in the USA might be routinely recording my e-mails or phone calls. At a practical level, however, I don’t care that much – such messages are ephemeral and I always try to communicate in private as if I was communicating in public.<\/p>\n
Now, when it comes to my web site, that’s different. It would great to think that someone is recording all that I put on the web. If the public site was lost, it would be good to think that the content survived somewhere. When I die or stop running a web site, it would be good to know that the material is still available to researchers or historians or anyone with an interest.<\/p>\n
So, imagine my excitement when I recently attended a Nominet Policy Forum and met and heard the wonderfully named Helen Hockx-Yu who has the wonderful title of Head of Web Archiving at the wonderful British Library.<\/p>\n
Helen told the Forum that the British Library now archives digital as well as print publications, It has a statutory responsibility to archive all .uk domains which are text-based and published. Using web crawling, all domains are archived once a year and some web sites are archived more frequently, quarterly, monthly or even weekly.<\/p>\n
Currently that means that around 1.4 billion URLs and 4 million sites are archived which represents 31.5 terabytes of information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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