British Library Warns UK’s Web Heritage ‘Could Be Lost’

Posted by admin on Feb 25, 2010

The UK’s online heritage could be lost forever if the government does not grant a “right to archive”, a group of leading libraries has said.

The British Library, along with other institutions, has been archiving UK websites since 2004 but has only been able to cover 6,000 of an estimated 8m.

Currently, it must ask permission from website owners before archiving them.

The group, which has just made its UK Web Archive available to the public, warned of “a digital black hole”.

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