Long-term preservation and web archiving
Long-term preservation and web archiving

activities of the Austrian National Library

Summary/Abstract: The collection and preservation of as much as possible of a country's published work plays a significant part in preserving a country's cultural memory. For this reason, almost every country in the world has formal legal requirements for publications to be supplied to their National Library ("legal deposit"), in order that this important contribution to our cultural and scientific heritage be preserved for as long as possible. It would make sense for this library copy requirement to encompass all forms of media and publication that were of importance in their time. Nowadays this includes an ever-growing number of online publications on the World Wide Web

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