Note: We first blogged about the Cyber Cemetery and one of its founders Cathy Hartman in September, 2007. You can read that post here.
It was a historian’s nightmare. During the change from the Clinton to the Bush administration, Web sites affiliated with the Clinton White House went dark, and an unknown number of online documents and files were forever lost.
Such Internet deaths inspired the Cyber Cemetery at the University of North Texas, which preserves government Web sites in their final form. The Cyber Cemetery archives sites when commissions or panels expire, allowing the online work of defunct government bodies to live on and remain accessible to the public.
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“It [the name] started as a joke. You know, `Oh, all these dead Web sites,’” said Starr Hoffman, who oversees the project as the librarian for digital collections at North Texas. “But it stuck, and nobody thought of a better name.”
Source: AP (via Federal News Radio)
Hat Tip: P.W.
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