Classification of the End-of-Term Archive: Extending Collection Development Practices to Web Archives – Findings of the Web Archive Survey of Federal Depository Libraries, December 2010, Revised: January 2011, Kathleen Murray
“The Classification of the End-of-Term Archive (EOT Archive) project builds on a previous project1 conducted collaboratively by the Library of Congress, the US Government Printing Office (GPO), the Internet Archive, the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries, and the California Digital Library. That project captured the entirety of the federal governments public Web presence before and after the 2009 change in presidential administrations. The result is an approximately 16 terabyte Web archive of government information that is replicated in repositories at the collaborating organizations. As Web archives become more available and accessible, many libraries will be collecting materials from these important information repositories. Librarians will need the capability to identify and select materials in accord with collection development policies. Additionally, libraries will need to characterize these materials using common metrics; however, such metrics are not established for Web archives, making it difficult for librarians to communicate the scope and value of these materials to administrators.”
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