Over 200 terabytes of the government web archived!

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In our December post, "Preserving U.S. Government Websites and Data as the Obama Term Ends," we described our participation in the End of Term Web Archive project to preserve federal government websites and data at times of administration changes.

Between Fall 2016 and Spring 2017, the Internet Archive archived over 200 terabytes of government websites and data.

This includes over 100TB of public websites and over 100TB of public data from federal FTP file servers totaling, together, over 350 million URLs/files.

Through the EOT project's public nomination form and through our collaboration with the DataRefuge, Environmental Data and Governance Initiative, and other efforts, over 100,000 webpages or government datasets were nominated by citizens and preservationists for archiving.

Working with the University of North Texas, we launched the Government Web & Data Archive nomination form so the public can continue to nominate public government websites and data to be archived.

Lastly, archiving government data remains a critical activity of the preservation community.

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