Web archiving

As the country’s national library, the National Library of the Netherlands (the KB) is responsible for collecting, cataloguing and preserving publications that are issued in the Netherlands, and keeping them accessible. Because more and more publications are appearing in electronic form, storing them permanently and keeping them accessible has become a very important task. To carry this out efficiently, the KB has developed the e-Depot system. This digital depository makes it possible to preserve digital objects over the long term.

In 2007 the KB began archiving a selection of Dutch websites. The goal of the KB web archive is to collect Dutch websites and keep them permanently accessible. This means that not only are websites being gathered (known as crawling or harvesting), but a strategy for long-term access is also being developed.

The web archive will become available in the reading room during 2011. In a later phase it will become available online.

Web archiving at the KB
The Dutch web
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Digital preservation
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