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A membership organization dedicated to improving the tools, standards and best practices of web archiving while promoting international collaboration and the broad access and use of web archives for research and cultural heritage.

Digital history, web archives, and the history of 20th century Canada.

Work on a collective, crowd-sourced bibliography to bring historians together who are using, thinking about using, or getting interested in web archives.

Archiving websites since 2002. Archives Japanese official institutions’ websites: the government, courts, local governments, independent administrative organizations, and universities. Websites of cultural and international events held in Japan, and those related to electronic magazines, are also archived.

A digital archive of Czech web resources which are collected with the aim of their long-term preservation. The National Library of the Czech Republic, in cooperation with Moravian Library and Institute of Computer Science of Masaryk University, has been organizing preservation of these documents since 2000.

Initiative of the Biblioteca de Catalunya to capture, preserve and distribute the web archive of Catalonia.

Snapshots of Icelandic websites since 2004 in accordance with the Icelandic law on legal deposit from 2002. The collection is limited to .is domains and a hand-picked selection of Icelandic websites within other top-level domains.

Since 2005 the collection and preservation of the Danish part of the Internet is included in the Danish Legal Deposit Law. The task is undertaken by the two legal deposit libraries in Denmark, State and University Library and The Royal Library. The archive is only accessible to researchers who have requested and been granted special permission to use the collection for specific research purposes.

Forms part of the Alexander Turnbull Library collections. Selecting websites from 1999, the collection has continued to grow with active development since 2005. Covers a diverse range of subjects: government, politics, blogs, Māori, including iwi and Treaty of Waitangi, community and ethnic groups, music, organisations, artists and directories, sport, arts and the environment.

Program of the National and University Library in Zagreb, is a collection of selected material harvested from the Internet and stored on the Library server. The Archive's mission is gathering and long-term preservation of Internet publications as part of the Croatian national heritage.

News and information about the UK Web Archive, provided by the British Library.

Aims to critically assess the value of web archives for realistic research scenarios, and develop information access tools and methods that maximize the archive's utility for research.

Digital librarian and founder of the Internet Archive.

Archivists, programmers, writers and others dedicated to digital heritage since 2009. Preserving sites and web content which is shut down, shut off, merged, and deleted.

Nonprofit organisation established to preserve Web sites by taking regular "snapshots". The Wayback Machine provides links to older versions of a webpage. There are special collections, for example on Web pioneers.

Contains information gathered from BBS's in the early days of the Internet.

Opinion piece by Ashlee Vance about how archive.org doesn't permanently save material the way most people believe it does.

Announcement of the creation of the UK Web Archiving Consortium (UKWAC).

Essay by Peter Abrahams pointing out "one of the weaknesses of most search engines and the Web itself: you cannot sort by date."

Opinion piece by Andrew Orlowski. Points out that Google can't always index, retrieve and/or sort everything in useful ways, but its supporters are overlooking these major drawbacks to using it as an archive.

Journal article by Paul Wouters, Iina Hellsten, and Loet Leydesdorff. Examines the consequences and implications of internet search engines continuously reconstructing the past by updating their indices.

Australia's Web archive, established initially by the National Library of Australia, and now built in collaboration with nine other Australian libraries and cultural collecting organisations.

Digital library of cultural artifacts in digital form. The collection includes public information films, recordings and Web harvest of political related and government websites.

A subscription service from the Internet Archive, which allows institutions to build, manage and search their own web archive. Includes the sites of universities, libraries, and special interest collections of websites.

A harvest of Federal Agency public web sites as they existed prior to January 20, 2005.

Aims to collect and preserve Web sites useful in serving the current or future informational needs of Congress and researchers.

Searchable archive of more than 700 million Usenet postings from a period of more than 20 years.

On-demand archiving system for web pages, usable for generating permanent references. Information about the service; archiving and search forms.