German Web Archiving Initiatives

Here's an interesting article on how the Germans are thinking about capturing and archiving web content. In June of 2006, "the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek received the task of collecting, cataloguing, indexing and archiving non-physical media works (online publications)." Here is the bit about long term preservation . I don't have time to fully wrap my mind around all of this, but wanted to share it with you.

Thank you to the fabulous Kathryn Lybarger for speaking to our student chapter a couple of weeks ago and apologies for the delay in posting the following links.

Kathryn graciously offers a link to her PowerPoint slides

Here are some links to items she discussed in her talk:

Trusted Digital Repository report

TRAC checklist

Projects to volunteer with:

Wikipedia
Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders
Librivox

A friendly invitation:

"Feel free to contact me if you are interested in working with these projects
and don't know where to start, or if you'd like to help with the Daily
Racing Form project. Unfortunately I don't have any positions that pay
tuition, but I am still hiring for student and work-study positions, and accept
volunteer work as well. :)"