Separating the Wheat from the Chaff: Identifying Key Elements in the NLA .Au Domain Harvest

Web archiving: ethical and legal issues affecting programmes in Australia and the Netherlands

“…While whole of domain harvesting ensures a much greater coverage of materials, the value and completeness of the individual pages retrieved is lower. In relation to the 2005 .au capture, Philips stated that as much as 40% of websites harvested could be incomplete or defective (in Fellows et al 2008). The sheer size of the .au domain means that at present, PANDORA cannot hope to preserve all material that is of significance to Australian cultural heritage through its current archival model.…”

“…Denmark aims to complete four harvests a year, though their selective harvesting programme is much narrower than PANDORA's (Jacobsen 2008). The rapid rate of change on the internet, particularly in terms of media such as blogs and dynamic websites, means that comprehensive capturing is next to impossible (Fellows et al 2008). …”