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Friday, 9th April 2010

National Library of New Zealand Will Begin a New Zealand Web Harvest on May 12th

Access the Complete National Library of New Zealand Web Harvest 2010 Overview

The National Library of New Zealand is working with the Internet Archive (Brewster, Peter, and crew) to run a web harvest of the New Zealand web between May 12-25, 2010.


From a National Library of New Zealand Web Page:

The National Library exists to preserve New Zealand's social and cultural history, whether in the form of books, newspapers and photographs, or of websites, blogs and videos.

The New Zealand Web Harvest 2010 harvest recognises the importance of the internet in all areas of New Zealand society and culture by taking a 'snapshot' of the New Zealand internet in May 2010.

Info on the page explains what domains the info will be coming from; how to make sure your site is included: user-agents; Robots.txt other technical issues; and a very brief discussion of the differences between a "whole of domain web harvest" and a "selective domain web harvest", something NLNZ has been doing for several years.

We will attempt to acquire:

+ Websites that fall under the .nz country code

+ Websites that fall under .com. .net and .org that can be programmatically determined to be hosted on machines that are physically located in New Zealand

+ Selected websites based overseas that are covered by the provisions of the National Library of New Zealand Act (2003).

We estimate we will capture 130-140 million URLs, resulting in 7-8 terabytes of uncompressed data.

Finally, links to
Download the 2010 Web Harvest Options Paper

and

Download the 2010 Web Harvest Consultation Report are available.

Access the Complete National Library of New Zealand Web Harvest 2010 Overview


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