Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records
An Arizona Model for Web Preservation and Access
Richard Pearce-Moses
Director of Digital Government Information
Voice: (602) 926-4035 · Email: rpm@lib.az.us
- An Arizona Model for Web Preservation and Access
- The Library and Archives is developing a new model for curating a collection of Web documents. The model considers how the basic processes of identification and selection, acquisition, description, reference, and preservation will change in the digital era. It also explores how the fundamental principles underlying those activities must be reconsidered. The model is based on the observation that the organization of Web sites parallels the organization of an archival collection and on the assumption that archival principles of provenance and original order are useful to curate and to provide access to documents in the collection. The model is described in the white paper published in DttP: Documents to the People 33:1 (Spring 2005). Library and Archives staff have been asked to speak about the Arizona Model at the State GILS Conference, the Western Round-Up Archives Conference, the Library of Congress, and the American Library Association, and the model is an important component of the ECHO DEPository Research Project (described below).
- White paper
- Text of presentation at GODORT
- Slides that accompanied presentation
- Web Archives Workbench
- In collaboration with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and OCLC, the Arizona State Library is developing a set of software tools to identify, select, acquire, describe, provide access to, and preserve state agency web publications. This project is part of the ECHO DEPository research project funded by the Library of Congress' National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program and administered by the National Science Foundation. Much of this work is based on the Arizona Model.