There are plenty of good changes in the new whitehouse.gov site, such as a better copyright policy that enables clearer copying and remix, and a much shorter robots.txt file, which makes it easier for search engines and archivists to index and archive the site. (Compare the current 4-line Obama robots file to a 2300+ version […]
Web archiving is a topic of great interest to me and the subject of an article I’m writing. Part of the paper addresses the Bush administration’s questionable conduct regarding the content of the White house website. For example, the White House website’s robots exclusion file — a mechanism that can be used to ask search […]
The GAO has released a report entitled Federal Records: National Archives and Selected Agencies Need to Strengthen E-Mail Management. The report found that “[w]ithout periodic evaluations of recordkeeping practices or other controls to ensure that staff are trained and carry out their responsibilities, agencies have little assurance that e-mail records are properly identified, stored, and […]
