About the Web Archiving Project
In the fall of 2005 the South Dakota State Library participated in a pilot project with other library and archive institutions to
test a new web archiving tool created by the
Internet Archive (IA) organization. Dubbed
Archive-it, the tool
allows users to create, manage and search web archives. The State Library's goal was to determine whether or not Archive-it would
be a viable tool to capture the state's web publications for preservation and access purposes.
During the five week project 5.6 million documents or 160GB of digital information was captured--the equivalent
of approximately 320 4-drawer file cabinets. The results of the pilot project confirmed that Archive-it would meet the Library's
expectations for archiving state digital publications on the web.
The State Library has since partnered with the
South Dakota State Archives and
the
Bureau of Information and Telecommunications (BIT) to make this service available to state government and the public.
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