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The National Archives of the Netherlands and archiving government websites

Publication date: 11.11.2022

Archeion, 2022, 123, pp. 31-45

https://doi.org/10.4467/26581264ARC.22.013.16666

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Antal Posthumus
National Archives of the Netherlands, Hague, Netherlands
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4559-7395 Orcid
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The National Archives of the Netherlands and archiving government websites

Abstract

The national Archives of the netherlands, as a permanent government agency and official archive for the central government (ministries and their agencies), has the legal duty, laid down in the Archiefwet, to secure the future of government records. Within this context, our role does not involve actively forming a collection of archived websites through selecting and harvesting these ourselves. This is a key difference between us and other national archives, national libraries and other (inter-)national heritage institutions. guidelines and a central platform for archiving government websites. Such a mandate requires an environment in which the processes, in relation to one another, can take place in a controlled manner. A significant part of making it happen was the effort we’ve put (and continue to do so) into advising the producers of records – ministries and their agencies – as to how they should create, and eventually transfer, archived public websites that are a specific form of government records. One example of the type of support we offer was a very well received set of guidelines on archiving websites that we issued in 2018. Those guidelines were also used as part of the requirements in a public European tender (2021). The objective of the tender: implementation of a central harvesting platform to harvest approximately 1500 public websites of the Central government. This article will also present our experiences and insights into integrating the processes of ingestion, storage, management and preservation of and providing access to archived public websites of the Dutch Central government into the existing infrastructure and workflows of our trusted digital repository (e-depot in short).

 

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Information: Archeion, 2022, 123, pp. 31-45

Article type: Original article

Titles:

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The National Archives of the Netherlands and archiving government websites

Polish: Archiwum Narodowe Holandii i archiwizacja rządowych stron internetowych

Authors

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4559-7395

Antal Posthumus
National Archives of the Netherlands, Hague, Netherlands
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4559-7395 Orcid
All publications →

National Archives of the Netherlands, Hague, Netherlands

Published at: 11.11.2022

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Antal, Posthumus. "The National Archives of the Netherlands and archiving government websites" Archeion. Nov 11, 2022. https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/archeion/article/the-national-archives-of-the-netherlands-and-archiving-government-websites