Check out this recent piece in Forbes about the End of Term project (eotarchive.org). And if you’re so moved to help out, you can nominate any federal government url through our handy nomination tool. There’s still time to help us save democracy’s information!
Meet The Citizens Racing To Save Government Websites From Vanishing. Leslie Katz, Forbes, Oct 23, 2024
…With the Nov. 5 election just a week away, they’re harvesting vast amounts of government data before the White House welcomes new residents or former ones in January. The information will live on in the End of Term Web Archive, a giant repository of federal government websites preserved for the historical record as one administrative term ends and a new one begins. Librarians, archivists and technologists across the country join forces every four years to donate time, effort and resources to what they dub the end-of-term crawl, with the resulting datasets available to the public for free…
“Citizens have a right to access information about what their government is doing in their name,” says James Jacobs, a government information librarian at Stanford University, an End of Term Web Archive project partner. “That’s why libraries have long collected these materials to make sure they are organized, preserved and easily accessible for the long term.”
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