Motivation

The amount of information published on the Internet continues to grow at a tremendous rate. Yet, contrary to conventional publications, little of what is published on the World Wide Web is actually preserved in an archive. The need for creating an archive of the information published on the Web, being part of humankinds cultural heritage, is being recognized by national libraries worldwide, and resulted in the creation of numerous projects addressing these issues. The Austrian National Library (ÖNB) together with the Department of Software Technology (IFS) at the Technical University of Vienna, thus initiated the AOLA project (Austrian On-Line Archive). The goal of this project is to build an archive of the Austrian Webspace. Documents will be harvested at certain time intervals to produce snapshots auf the Austrian Webspace.

Feedback
If you have questions or want to provide feedback on any aspect of the AOLA project, please send an e-mail to rauber@ifs.tuwien.ac.at

Presentations and Publications

Webarchivierung: eine Aufgabe für Nationalbibliotheken?! - Teil 1 von Alfred Schmidt, Referat in der Sitzung des Internet Beirats des Bundeskanzleramtes am 14.5.2001 (german version)
Webarchivierung: eine Aufgabe für Nationalbibliotheken?! - Teil 2 von Andreas Rauber, Referat in der Sitzung des Internet Beirats des Bundeskanzleramtes am 14.5.2001 (german version)
Archiving the Internet: Challenges, Projects, and the Austrian Perspective by Andreas Rauber, talk at the INST-conference "Knowledge Networking in Cultural Studies" in Reichenau (english version)