[Air-l] Web Archiving

[w.lusoli at salford.ac.uk]

Dear all, 

I have learnt with interest of the archive project related to the 
September 11 terrorist attack (http://webarchivist.org), and 
downloaded their link. Applied networking, I would say, of the best 
quality: technical, scholarly and moral.

On a much smaller scale, we are about to dowload and archive the 
sites of a number of UK political organisations (for info see 
http://www.ipop.org.uk). Does anybody on the list have knowledge / 
experience of web archiving, and reliable web archiving software? 

Our N is small, and we would be able to monitor each download for 
faulty dynamic links. Yet, the jungle of jargon looks impenetrable: 
web archiving, harvesting software, offline browsers, crawlers etc.

We've have tried to address a couple of 'specialist' librarian lists, 
but no joy.

Can anybody help?

Many thanks

Wainer


Wainer Lusoli
Research Officer
Internet, political organisations and participation project
ESRI - University of Salford
United Kingdom

http://www.ipop.org.uk
w.lusoli at salford.ac.uk
Research Officer
Internet, Political Organisations and Participation Project
http://www.ipop.org.uk

w.lusoli at salford.ac.uk
Tel: 0161 295 5654