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British Library to Archive Electronic Resources
An anonymous reader writes "The British Library is a government-owned library that legally has to hold a copy of every book, pamphlet, map, journal, newspaper and piece of sheet music published in the UK. Today, that law changed and now the Library will be able to collect non-paper resources, such as websites, electronic journals, CD-ROMs and microfilms. Obviously, the library won't be archiving everything in these categories (for a start, the Wayback Machine already does a pretty good job of the websites), but will be keeping resources of national, historical or academic interest. There's more specific information in The British Library's press release. BBC News (which will now be archived by the Library) has an article on the changes."
so.... dmca vs british govt?
i got 20 bucks on the brits.
but will be keeping resources of national, historical or academic interest.
does my personal "watch my litle baby pictures" blog will be archived then?
From the Swedish Royal Library: http://www.kb.se/ENG/kbstart.htm Opening hours Friday October 31 the library will close at 16 PM. Saturday November 1 the library is closed Now, thats an intresting time.
do they plan to download and archive mp3s? i could help them out there.
Well, how many years till it becomes the worlds largest archive of porn? After all... that's intersting to a lot of people...
*There's Klingons on the starboard bow, scrape em off Jim!*
Well I worked out where they can put it all on one of those unlimited disk space hosts. An you could probably do it all for $50/mo
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The PM is to distinguish from 16 AM. Otherwise, confusion could result. ;)
--TheOrangeSquid Is it any wonder things seem so awry? We swim in a sea of confusion and don't have to think to survive
goatse.cx so I can look back on my mispent childhood in 40 years time.
i wonder if they'll archive the wayback machine.
i wonder if the wayback machine will archive them.