LAC’s Government of Canada Web Archive

LAC’s Government of Canada Web Archive provides access to on-going harvests and snapshots of the Federal Government web domain

The website data which is harvested is stored in the LAC “Government of Canada Web Archive” (GCWA). Client access to the content of the GCWA is provided through searching fulltext by keyword, by department name and by URL. It is also possible to search by specific format type, e.g. .pdf. At the time of its launch in Fall 2007, approximately 100 million digital objects (over 4 terabytes) of archived Federal Government website data will be made accessible via the LAC website.

LAC has implemented this first significant Canadian web archive through the use of open source tools, developed by the International Internet Preservation Consortium (www.netpreserve.org), of which LAC is a member. The goal of this organization is to collect, preserve and ensure long-term access to Internet content from around the world through the collaborative development of common tools and techniques for developing web archives.

Source: Library and Archive Canada

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