WEB ARCHIVING
a model

"These funds should be so large that to become a trustee of one of them would make a man at once a public character."

"... with most records now originating in digital form and with rapidly advancing information storage technology, archiving is within reach of virtually any foundation."

The Archive-it choice

• Cost
• QA tools
• Little technical overhead
• Institutional mission
• Collection management

What we can offer

• Human touch

What we can offer

• Human touch
• Discoverabilty

What we can offer

• Human touch
• Discoverabilty
• Preservation planning

First steps

• Archive our own website
• Create the agreement forms
• Test crawls
• Talk to our donors

Next steps

• Cost of preserving WARC files
• Cost of creating description for web materials@

Thanks!