British Library to Archive Electronic Resources

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday November 1, 2003 @04:49AM from the an-archiver's-archives dept.

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."

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possible? by mehtars · 2003-11-01 05:39 · Score: 0, Redundant

Is it really possilbe to archive all the information?
basically you need to copy all the webpages and documents, and the changes of those documents.
Movies files and such take up a lot of space. so how are they going to manage something like this-- it'd probably use up terabytes upon terabytes of disk space.