To make sure the details of Guantánamo endure, Mr. Denbeaux and some colleagues are creating a Guantánamo Bay Detention Center archive. It will be a repository of the records and first-person accounts of hundreds of defense lawyers who have worked on detainee cases. With the fate of many detainees still in limbo — the Obama administration is debating whether some will be held indefinitely and whether all will receive public trials — the archive may turn out to be one of the few public sources of information about what really happened at Guatánamo.
It is also likely to be one of the first collections to make its debut under a digital-archiving project called Web-at-Risk: Preserving Our Nation’s Cultural Heritage. The program is run by the California Digital Library, part of the University of California system, under the auspices of the Library of Congress. On its Web site, the California Digital Library describes Web-at-Risk as an effort to create digital tools to “enable librarians and archivists to capture, curate, preserve, and provide access to Web-based government and political information.” The Guantánamo project was not originally part of Web-at-Risk but fit nicely into its mandate, Mr. Nash says. Now it is one of a number of archives being built with the Web-at-Risk tool kit.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
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