Using Archive-It and the manual "start on demand" feature inside the web application, the Alaska State Library crawled Governor Palin and Lt. Governor Parnell's web sites on the eve of the transition of power and was able to capture valuable information that is now offline and no longer accessible...Actually, all the pages that were available before the transition will still be available. The difference is that they are now in an archive instead of at their former locations. The old web documents for then Gov. Palin have new URLs
The foresight of the staff of the Alaska State Library and the availability of the Archive-It web archiving service made it possible to preserve the final changes to these "at risk" websites before they were taken offline.
Gov. Palin's news releases, for example, are now in the Press Archive here.
We were hoping that this would be done. A tip of the Texas for Sarah Palin Stetson to the Alaska State Library web team.
- JP
This makes me so extremely happy. It's like we get to hold on to a part of Palin's past - and all of her wonderful pictures.
ReplyDeleteI'm so thrilled! Thanks for posting this!!
This is awesome and I will be posting that at "AK Governor Sarah Palin's Accomplishments" Blog. The historical record of her achievements must be preserved and I am ecstatic that the Alaska State Library did this. They deserve our thanks and kudos.
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