Bókasafnið - 01.01.2004, Page 24

Summary
Preservation of Icelandic Web Sites
Many nations have realised that in order to salvage their
national cultural heritage they must start systematically
collecting information published on the Internet. The
original idea to collect, organize and make available snap-
shots of web sites throughout their history can be traced
back to 1996 when the Internet Archive was established. In
January 2003 a new law was passed in Iceland, The
Mandatory deposit act which requires the National and
University Library to collect all published material on the
Internet and make it publicly available in a national web
archive. Knowing this was in their future the National
Library in 1998 took part in a Nordic project called the
Nordic Web Archive (NWA). The project involves develop-
ment and testing of software that would collect and
organise all web sites available in each country. The project
continues as NWA II and is to come to a close in April 2004.
Already 7,5 million documents have been collected from
Icelandic web sites using a „web site harvester" called
Nedlib.
ORÐ
ORÐ í EYRA
Hefur nú til sölu úrval hljóðbóka af
ýmsu tagi, fyrir börn og fullorðna.
Á þessu ári koma út
nýjar og spennandi bækur.
Fylgist með tilkynningum frá ORÐI í
EYRA, Hljóðbókaútgáfu
Blindrabókasafns íslands.
Upplýsingasími 564-4222
Netfang: ordieyra@bbi.is
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