If you’ve been waiting for your chance to make history: now’s the time!
Please join us for the FGI virtual End of Term Project Web archiving nomination sprint on Wednesday 11 January 2017 from 9AM – 11AM Pacific / 12 noon – 2PM EST. During that time, We’ll set up a virtual conference room, give a brief presentation of the End of Term crawl and the ins and outs of nominating seeds and then volunteers will be on hand to answer your questions, suggest agencies for deep exploration, and take information about databases and other resources that are tricky to capture with traditional web archiving. RSVP TODAY!
If you’re new to the End of Term Project, it’s a collaborative project to collect and preserve public United States government web sites prior to the end of the current presidential administration on January 20, 2017. Working together, the Library of Congress, California Digital Library, University of North Texas Libraries, Internet Archive, George Washington University Libraries, Stanford University Libraries, and the U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) are conducting a thorough Web harvest of the .gov/.mil domain based on prioritized lists of URLs, including social media. As it did in 2008 and 2012 (previous harvests are accessible here), the project’s goal is to document federal agencies’ presence on the World Wide Web during the transition of Presidential administrations, to enhance the existing archival Internet collections, and to give the public access to archived digital government information. This broad comprehensive crawl of the .gov/.mil domain is based on a prioritized list of URLs, including social media.
This sprint to nominate seeds is a big part of making it happen! Hundreds of volunteers and institutions are already involved in the effort. We hope you’ll join the conversation and the fun. There may even be a few (completely non-monetary) prizes for top contributors.
You can pre-register here. We’ll contact you as the date gets closer with access information for the virtual conference.
The final deadline to nominate URLs prior to Inauguration Day is Friday, January 13th, so even if you can’t sprint with us, keep the nominations coming! Questions? Email us at admin AT freegovinfo DOT com.
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