Please help build a Web Archive of the Sept 11 Attack
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The Internet Archive in collaboration with Alexa Internet, and SUNY, Library of
Congress and UWashington is archiving pages and sites relating to the terrorist
attacks in the NY and DC. Where we are archiving sites and pages all the time,
we are concentrating the crawlers to make sure there is a solid historical
record of this time.

If you would like to help, we can build a better archive. Here is how you can
help:

Suggest sites and pages to archive:

* This can be done by sending URL's to attackarchive@...
(this is a list of the crawl engineers at Alexa and the researchers at SUNY and
UW)

* Surf with the free Alexa Toolbar on. Every night new sites and pages
are discovered by
processing the day's usage logs from the Alexa Toolbar. These are sanitized to
eliminate cgi and other URL's that might contain personal information and then
those sites are crawled for the archive.


Help build a page in mid-October that will help guide people through relevant
materials. This could be similar to the Election 2000 webpage
(http://archive.alexa.com), or something else completely. We would like to
make this public at the end of October or early November.


Datamine the web archive to find past pages and sites that might be relevant.
This takes programming skill and will be more difficult for Alexa to support,
but if you are interested, please write a proposal in the web section of the
www.archive.org site.


Thank you. Please repost, but don't spam.

-brewster
Director, Internet Archive