LIBER 39TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE - Statsbiblioteket
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PaRaLLEL sEssIons 1.2 to 4.2<br />
sEssIon 2.2<br />
saRa auBRy (natIonaL LIBRaRy,<br />
fRancE): IntRoducIng WEB<br />
aRchIvEs as a nEW LIBRaRy<br />
sERvIcE: thE EXPERIEncE of thE<br />
natIonaL LIBRaRy of fRancE<br />
Web sites and web pages emerge and<br />
disappear from the World Wide Web every<br />
day. Like many other heritage institutions,<br />
the National Library of France (BnF) has<br />
developed a strategy to collect and keep<br />
track of born digital material using very<br />
large-scale tools such as web crawlers.<br />
Today, for legal deposit purposes, BnF has<br />
collected more than 15 billion files (web<br />
pages, images, animations, video and<br />
sound records...), which constitute more than<br />
160 terabytes of data and share storage<br />
facilities with other digital resources.<br />
The Web archives of the French national<br />
domain stopped being the sole interest and<br />
the study object of the BnF web archiving<br />
team, and a dedicated and trained group<br />
of librarians in charge of acquisition, when<br />
this new collection was opened to the public<br />
in April 2008, developed as a new service<br />
and released as a new application.<br />
Developing the service was first a technical<br />
challenge: how to install and adapt open<br />
source tools (the Wayback Machine and<br />
Nutch) when the IT staff was used to developing<br />
applications on its own internally?<br />
How to integrate these tools into a secured<br />
and internet proof “public computer” along<br />
with other digital resources (catalogs,<br />
digitized collections, e-journals and databases…)<br />
which have been historically piled<br />
up one after the other? How to keep this<br />
collection safe?<br />
But introducing Web archives was also<br />
an organisational and human challenge:<br />
how to involve, explain and pass on to colleagues<br />
content and collection development<br />
policy, ways of working and not working for<br />
a contemporary and disruptive media type?<br />
In particular, to those who authorize and<br />
orientate researchers in the reading rooms<br />
and answer their questions at the help desk.<br />
Web archives are artefacts, incomplete<br />
documents, which are more common to<br />
archivists than to librarians.<br />
A new icon on a screen is not enough to<br />
reach and retain a public. BnF has created<br />
information and communication tools to<br />
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