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British Library to archive billions of
webpages
Saturday April 06, 2013 03:17:42 PM,
IANS
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London:
Embarking on the biggest expansion of its archiving power since
17th century, the British Library intends to record the country's
burgeoning collection of online cultural and intellectual works.
It aims to "harvest" the entire UK web domain to document current
events. It is estimated around a billion pages a year will now be
amassed along with the books, magazines and newspapers which have
been stored for several centuries every year, Daily Express
reported Friday.
According to Lucie Burgess, leading the project at the British
Library, the unprecedented operation would provide a complete
snapshot of life in the 21st century which increasingly plays out
online.
"We have already lost a lot of material, particularly around
events such as the 7/7 London bombings or the 2008 financial
crisis.
"That material has fallen into the digital black hole of the 21st
century because we haven't been able to capture it... Most of that
material has already been lost or taken down. The social media
reaction has gone," she said.
The operation to "capture the digital universe" will begin with an
automatic "web harvest" of an initial 4.8 million websites - or
one billion webpages - from the UK domain, she said.
The library, having invested three million pounds in the project,
plans to collect the material by conducting an "annual trawl" of
the UK web domain.
It will "harvest" information from another 200 sites -- such as
online newspapers or journals -- on a more regular basis.
Access to the material, including archived websites, will be
offered in reading rooms at each of the legal deposit libraries.
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