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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Friends --</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>We are working with The Internet Archive
(archive.org) and the Library of Congress to build an archive of the emerging
web sphere related to the September 11 Terrorist Attack.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>As hundreds (thousands?) of web sites around the
world react to these events, we think it is critical to identify, archive and
annotate these sites and pages. <FONT face=Arial size=2>We're interested
in finding as much web content as possible, from as many different sites and
different countries as possible. Everything is of interest, especially
those sites not likely to be picked up by search engines or web crawlers (like
individual's pages with links sent via email).</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This archive will be made available to the public
in a way similar to the Election Collection 2000 [<A
href="http://archive0.alexa.com/collections/e2k.html">http://archive0.alexa.com/collections/e2k.html</A>].</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>To get this effort moving, we have quickly together
a *very simple* web site at a new site, <A
href="http://webarchivist.org">http://webarchivist.org</A>. If you're
interested, visit that site, and follow the (hopefully) simple directions.
Basically, what we're asking is that you click on a special link (that you
install on your browser) whenever you are visiting a site that you think should
be archived. Clicking on the link will alert our system to archive that
site immediately. If you're up for it, you can also get a tool that allows
you to fill out a 3-question "site coding sheet", identifying the type of site
producer, the kinds of activities available on the site, and an open-ended
assessment of the site.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If you'd rather, feel free to send list of
links to us at one of the email addresses below.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>We hope you'll join us in this important
activity. We'll try to have some preliminary results of the effort
available by the time of the AOIR conference next month.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>And, please, any comments or suggestions on how to
identify relevant sites -- send them along!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Steve Schneider (SUNY Institute of Technology) - <A
href="mailto:steve@sunyit.edu">steve@sunyit.edu</A> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Kirsten Foot (U of Washington) - <A
href="mailto:kfoot@u.washington.edu">kfoot@u.washington.edu</A></FONT></DIV>
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