Austrian On-Line Archive
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 humankind's cultural heritage, is being recognised by national libraries worldwide, and resulted in the creation of numerous projects addressing these issues.
The Austrian National Library (OeNB) 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 of 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
Overview
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Project Description
A short description of the AOLA project.
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FAQ
A collection of Frequently Asked Questions.
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People
The people involved in the AOLA project.
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Presentations and Publications
Listing of presentations and publications relating to the AOLA project.
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Related Projects and Further Links
Numerous projects have been started, that address various aspects of the numerous challenges the AOLA project faces. Links to the according home-pages are provided here.
The Archive
As yet the Archive is not publicly accessible. An impression can be conveyed, however, by the various versions of the AOLA-homepage.