The California Digital Library (CDL) began crawling sites related to the
Katrina disaster last Friday.

We're crawling in-house with Heritrix and our partners at Stanford
University are crawling using the same seed list with their own crawler.
It's great to know that the Internet Archive will be working on this too.

The seed list for CDL's daily crawls is based on a growing list of URLs
submitted to a web-based interface by a couple dozen curators on our
Web-at-Risk NDIIPP project.

We invite the Internet Archive to work with us to come up with a combined
seed list to capture this important and historic information.

-John


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John A. Kunze jak@... California Digital Library
415 20th St, 4th Floor +1 510 987 9231 University of California
Oakland, CA 94612-3550 fax:510 893 5212 Office of the President
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--- On Sat, 3 Sep 2005, Brewster Kahle wrote:

> Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 23:36:29 -0700
> From: Brewster Kahle <brewster@...>
> To: archivists@yahoogroups.com, archivists-talk@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [archivists] Please help archive the Katrina disaster
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> The Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library, needs help in
> finding URL's of sites and blogs that contain documents of this major
> disaster.
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> Please email links to sites and pages that should be saved for future
> research to katrina@....
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> We have worked to archive events such as 9/11 and the tsunami with
> the generous help of volunteers finding and sending in links. We
> then save these digital works for the long term and create research
> tools (for example: http://www.loc.gov/minerva/collect/sept11/
> index.html and http://web.archive.org ). As a library, we provide
> free access to those wanting to learn from these events-- we can only
> hope that we learn some lessons from disasters such as these.
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> Again, please send email to katrina@... with lists of URL's
> you suggest should be archived relevant to the Katrina Disaster.
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> We are also looking for a couple of volunteers that can help
> orchestrate the crawl. If you are interested, please send a note to
> katrina@... with "volunteer" in the subject line.
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> Please forward this message to any appropriate lists or people.
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> Thank you.
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> -Brewster Kahle
> Digital Librarian
> Internet Archive
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