Web Directory

» 2004 U.S. Federal Agency Web Harvest
   A harvest of Federal Agency public web sites as they existed prior to January 20, 2005.
   http://www.webharvest.gov/

» Archive-It.org
   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.
   http://www.archive-it.org/

» First Monday: Internet Time and the Reliability of Search Engines
   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.
   http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_10/wouters/

» Ghost Sites
   Long running online "museum" provides screenshots of defunct sites.
   http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/index.shtml

» Google Groups
   Searchable archive of more than 700 million Usenet postings from a period of more than 20 years.
   http://groups.google.com/

» MINERVA: Mapping the INternet Electronic Resources Virtual Archive
   Library of Congress Web Archiving Project aims to collect and preserve Web sites useful in serving the current or future informational needs of Congress and researchers.
   http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cocoon/minerva/html/minerva-home.html

» NewsletterArchive.org
   Aims to archive and make available to the public all email newsletters and electronic mailing lists. It will rely on user contributions for its content.
   http://newsletterarchive.org

» Pandora Archive
   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.
   http://pandora.nla.gov.au

» Searchenginewatch.com - It's Tough to Get a Good Date with a Search Engine
   Article by Gary Price and Genie Tyburski. Explores the question of "what is a date on the web?" and notes that a searcher may be misled by the results of searches restricted by date.
   http://searchenginewatch.com/2160061

» Textfiles
   Contains information gathered from BBS's in the early days of the Internet.
   http://www.textfiles.com/

» The European Archive
   Digital library of cultural artifacts in digital form. The collection includes public information films, recordings and Web harvest of political related and government websites.
   http://www.europarchive.org/

» The Internet Archive
   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.
   http://www.archive.org/

» The Register: Archive.org Suffers Fahrenheit 911 Memory Loss
   Opinion piece by Ashlee Vance about how archive.org doesn't permanently save material the way most people believe it does.
   http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/09/archive_yeahright_org/

» The Register: Britain's Web Presence to be Saved
   Announcement of the creation of the UK Web Archiving Consortium (UKWAC).
   http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/24/web_archive_british/

» The Register: Google, the Only Archive We'll Ever Need?
   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.
   http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/09/15/google_the_only_archive_well/

» The Register: The Web as Historical Record
   Essay by Peter Abrahams pointing out "one of the weaknesses of most search engines and the Web itself: you cannot sort by date."
   http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/04/web_historical_record/

» UK Web Archiving Consortium
   Creating an archive of culturally significant UK websites.
   http://www.webarchive.org.uk

» Web Design Timeline
   Ten years of web design in an archive.
   http://www.designtimeline.org

» WebCite
   On-demand archiving system for web pages, usable for generating permanent references. Information about the service; archiving and search forms.
   http://www.webcitation.org/