Re: Web Site Capture, Anyone?

[Sophia Jordan <Sophia.K.Jordan.3@xxxxxx>]

Cathy

At the present time the University of Notre Dame does not do any website
capture.

Sonja

At 02:39 PM 6/21/1999 -0700, you wrote:
>Colleagues,
>
>I would like to know if any of your institutions are currently engaged in
>capturing Web sites and writing them to CD (as opposed to printing them on
>paper), as part of your overall collection development policy.
>
>If so,
>- were preservation staff involved in the decision to do so?
>- was an organized approach undertaken to reach the decision, and if so,
>can you briefly describe it?
>- which Web capturing software is your institution using?
>- have you incorporated the maintenance of this data in your intitutions
>preservation planning/policy documents?
>- are the Web sites being cataloged, and if so, using which (I presume
>draft) guidelines?
>- how are you providing access to potential users?
>
>If your institution is contemplating Web site capture, but has not begun to
>do so, I would also be interested in hearing your thoughts.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Cathy Aster
>Head of Preservation Services
>Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace
>Stanford University
>Stanford, CA 94305
>phone: (650) 723-2132
>fax: (650) 723-9852
>email: aster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
Sonja Jordan
Head, Preservation
University of Notre Dame