The Wisconsin Digital Archive Pilot Project is a collaborative effort involving the Wisconsin Reference and Loan Library, the Wisconsin Historical Society, and the Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau. Its primary objective is to develop strategies for providing permanent electronic access to web-based Wisconsin electronic government documents.
Documents selected for preservation follow the Guidelines for Selecting Electronic Wisconsin State Documents Policy. The primary focus is to preserve documents that are considered "at-risk," meaning they are born and live only electronically on the Internet and display one or more of the following characteristics:
* It is prepared for a state agency by a private individual or organization that is supported wholly or partly by any funds appropriated by the State of Wisconsin.
* It reports and/or describes the activity of an agency, or of a subset of an agency. (e.g., annual reports, statistical tables or analyses)
* It is legislatively, judicially or administratively mandated.
* It presents the results of a state task force, commission, or of committee work.
Wisconsin state agencies are encouraged to assist in identifying URLs of online publications located on state agency website that are at-risk and should be digitally archived as part of their statutory obligation to participate in the Wisconsin Document Depository Program. This includes new content, content that has been significantly updated or revised, or content scheduled to be removed from a state agency website.
Link: Wisconsin Digital Archive Pilot Project
Posted by Paul H at October 20, 2005 04:29 PM
